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Goose bumps on an arm.
From the resemblance of goose bumps to the bumps on the skin of a plucked goose.
goose bump (plural goose bumps)
- (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
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)
- Ingrian: kylmäsuurima
- 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
- Mirandese: quelobrinas f pl
- 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
- 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, жмарци m pl
- Roman: srh (sh) m, žmarci (sh) m pl
- 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
- Welsh: croen gŵydd m
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