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goose bumps

/goos-buhmps/US // ˈgusˌbʌmps //

鸡皮疙瘩,起鸡皮疙瘩,疙瘩,起鸡皮疙瘩了

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n.名词(复数) plural noun
  1. 1
    • : a rough condition of the skin, resembling that of a plucked goose, induced by cold or fear; horripilation.

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Examples

  • We had a little goose that was laying golden eggs, and they told us to snip its head off.

  • I wandered around aimlessly for a while, then gave the goose to an acquiescent hippy on a barge.

  • One of the men was carrying a carving knife and a live goose.

  • Finally, Cleese goose-steps out of the dining room as the hapless Germans cringe and sob.

  • Then, the big goose egg that the administration is going to get from Iran will more obviously be a zip.

  • To hear the creature talk about it makes my mouth as a brick kiln and my flesh as that of a goose.

  • The Kutchin make pretty pipe-stems out of goose-quills wound about with porcupine-quills.

  • The universal desire was for mamma to see him, and when the time came, she owned that papa's swan had not turned out a goose.

  • The declination axis is short, and is supported by a massive goose-neck bolted to the upper end of the polar axis.

  • Of waking dog, nor gaggling goose more waker then the hound.'

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