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Your skin remembering it used to have fur, right before the cold or the fear does.
means The pimpled, bumpy texture skin takes on from cold, fear, or a sudden chill of emotion, caused by tiny muscles pulling each hair follicle upright.
from Named for its resemblance to a plucked goose's skin — stripped of feathers, you're left with a stippled surface of raised bumps where the quills used to be. The comparison is old and straightforward, found in English for centuries, with cousins in other European languages that reach for the same bird (French has 'chair de poule,' chicken flesh, so not everyone saw a goose).
- origin
- named for plucked goose skin bumps
- mechanism
- tiny muscles yank hair follicles upright
- pointless now
- useless without body hair to fluff
- trigger
- cold, fear, and chills from music alike