goose pimple

See also: goosepimple

English

Noun

goose pimple (plural goose pimples)

1. (rarely used in the singular) One of a group of small bumps on the skin caused by the involuntary erection of hairs in response to cold or fear.
   • 1961, William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine, page 7:

     Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck junk through all the hungry young cells.

Synonyms

• (bumps on the skin): goose bumps, goose flesh, goose skin, horripilation, pilomotor reflex (medical term)

Translations

bumps on the skin

• Afrikaans: hoendervleis (af)
• Arabic: أوزة بثرة ('awzat bithira)
• Catalan: pell de gallina (ca) f, pell anserina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雞皮疙瘩／鸡皮疙瘩 (zh) (jīpí gēda), 鸡皮疙瘩 (zh) (jīpí gēda)

• Czech: husí kůže f
• 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
• Greek: χήνα σπυράκι (chína spyráki)
• Hebrew: עוֹר בַּרְוָז (he) m ('or barváz)
• Hungarian: libabőr (hu)
• Icelandic: gæsahúð (is) f
• Irish: craiceann circe m, craiceann gé m
• Italian: pelle d'oca (it) f
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• Japanese: 鳥肌 (とりはだ, torihada)
• Korean: 옴 (om), 소름 (ko) (soreum), 닭살 (daksal)
• Lithuanian: žąsies oda f
• Luxembourgish: Héngerhaut (lb) f
• Maori: wawana, hītaratara, pukupuku, mimiko
• Norwegian: gåsehud
• Occitan: carn de galina f
• Polish: gęsia skórka (pl) f
• Portuguese: arrepio (pt) m, espinha ganso
• Russian: мура́шки (ru) f pl (muráški), гуси́ная ко́жа f (gusínaja kóža)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: срх m

  Roman: srh (sh) m

• Sotho: ditlhokanyane
• Spanish: carne de gallina f, piel de gallina f
• Swedish: gåshud (sv) c
• Tagalog: kulag, pangilabot
• Vietnamese: da gà