goose bump

See also: goosebump and goose-bump

English

Goose bumps on an arm.

Alternative forms

• goosebump, goose-bump

Etymology

From the resemblance of goose bumps to the bumps on the skin of a plucked goose.

Pronunciation

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Noun

goose bump (plural goose bumps)

1. (chiefly in the plural) Raised skin, usually caused by the involuntary erection of hairs on the neck or arms caused by cold, excitement, or fear.

   Synonyms: goose pimple, goose skin, goose flesh

Translations

raised skin caused by cold, excitement, or fear

• Afrikaans: hoendervleis (af)
• Arabic: قُشَعْرِيرَة f (qušaʕrīra)
• Armenian: փշաքաղություն (hy) (pʻšakʻaġutʻyun)
• Belarusian: мура́шкі f pl (muráški), гусі́ная ску́ра f (husínaja skúra)
• Catalan: pell de gallina (ca) f, pell anserina f
• Chechen: хьара (ḥʳara)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雞皮疙瘩／鸡皮疙瘩 (zh) (jīpígēda)

• Czech: husí kůže (cs) f
• Danish: gåsehud c
• Dutch: kippenvel (nl) n
• Esperanto: anserhaŭto
• Faroese: gásarhold n
• Finnish: kananliha (fi)
• French: chair de poule (fr) f
• Galician: carne de galiña f, arrepío m
• German: Gänsehaut (de) f
• Hebrew: עוֹר בַּרְוָז (he) m ('or barváz) (from ברווז, 'duck')
• Hindi: रौंगटे खड़े होना (rauṅgṭe khaṛe honā)
• Hungarian: libabőr (hu), lúdbőr
• Icelandic: gæsahúð (is) f
• Indonesian: bulu kuduk (id)
• Irish: craiceann circe m (from cearc, 'chicken'), craiceann gé m (from gé, 'goose'), cáithníní m pl
• Italian: pelle d'oca (it) f
• Japanese: 鳥肌 (ja) (とりはだ, torihada)
• Korean: 옴 (om), 소름 (ko) (soreum), 닭살 (daksal)
• Lithuanian: žąsies oda f
• Luxembourgish: Héngerhaut (lb) f
• Macedonian: наежу́вање n (naežúvanje), е́жење n (éženje)
• Malay: bulu roma
• Maori: wawana, hītaratara, pukupuku, mimiko
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gåsehud m or f

• Occitan: carn de galina f
• Plautdietsch: Gaunsefleesch n
• Polish: gęsia skórka (pl) f (from gęś, 'goose')
• Portuguese: pele de galinha, arrepio (pt) m, espinha ganso
• Punjabi: ਰੁਮਾਂਚ m (rumāñc)
• Romanian: piele de găină f
• Russian: гуси́ная ко́жа (ru) f (gusínaja kóža), мура́шки (ru) f pl (muráški, literally “small ants”) (colloquial)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: срх m

  Roman: srh (sh) m

• Sotho: ditlhokanyane
• Spanish: escalofrío (es) m, piel de gallina f (from cold), pelos de punta m pl (from fear)
• Swedish: gåshud (sv) c, ståpäls (sv) c
• Tagalog: kulag, pangilabot
• Thai: ขนลุก (th) (kǒn-lúk)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: мура́шки f pl (murášky), гуся́ча шкі́ра f (husjáča škíra)
• Vietnamese: da gà

See also

• anserine
• ghost bump
• chill bump
• cutis anserina
• horripilation
• piloerection
• pilomotor reflex

Further reading

• goose bumps on Wikipedia.Wikipedia