horripilate

== English == === Etymology === From Late Latin horripilātus, perfect passive participle of horripilō (“(of hairs) to bristle”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from horreō (“to bristle, shiver, dread”) +‎ pilus (“hair”) +‎ -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- (“to bristle”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɒˈɹɪpɪˌleɪt/ (General American) IPA(key): /hɔˈɹɪpəˌleɪt/ Hyphenation: hor‧ri‧pi‧late === Verb === horripilate (third-person singular simple present horripilates, present participle horripilating, simple past and past participle horripilated) (ambitransitive) To bristle in fear or horror; to have goose bumps or goose pimples. [from 1620s] 1979, Trevanian [pseudonym; Rodney William Whitaker], Shibumi, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, →ISBN; republished as Shibumi: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Three Rivers Press, 2005, →ISBN, page 330: When Hel shrugged and changed the subject diplomatically, the nape of Diamond's neck horripilated with embarrassment. ==== Synonyms ==== have goose flesh or goose skin have one's hair stand on end perscopate (obsolete) ==== Derived terms ==== horripilant horripilated (adjective) horripilating (adjective) horriplilatingly horripilation ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== pilomotor reflex === References === === Further reading === goose bumps on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === retrophilia == Spanish == === Verb === horripilate second-person singular voseo imperative of horripilar combined with te