英语词汇goose pimples的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

goose pimples; horripilation. When geese are plucked, the thousands of tiny muscles that pull their feathers erect to form a natural insulation system continue to contract in the cold. The contracted muscles look like bumpy, pimply skin on a bare bird and as far back as the 17th century suggested the bumps on human skin caused by cold or fear. At first this con- dition was called gooseflesh or goose skin, or “creeping of the flesh.” A fancier name is horripilation, “erection of the hair on the skin by contraction of the cutaneous muscles caused by cold, fear, or other emotion.” This word effectively suggests fear and derives from the Latin horrere, “to bristle or shud- der,” which gives us the word horror. It is first recorded in 1623.

词汇	goose pimples
词源	goose pimples; horripilation. When geese are plucked, the thousands of tiny muscles that pull their feathers erect to form a natural insulation system continue to contract in the cold. The contracted muscles look like bumpy, pimply skin on a bare bird and as far back as the 17th century suggested the bumps on human skin caused by cold or fear. At first this con- dition was called gooseflesh or goose skin, or “creeping of the flesh.” A fancier name is horripilation, “erection of the hair on the skin by contraction of the cutaneous muscles caused by cold, fear, or other emotion.” This word effectively suggests fear and derives from the Latin horrere, “to bristle or shud- der,” which gives us the word horror. It is first recorded in 1623.
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