Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To produce horripilation in; cause to shrink or creep, as flesh.
- To have goose-flesh.
WordNet 3.0
- v. have one's hair stand on end and get goosebumps
- v. cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps
Examples
“However, there are certain points of similarity between the Cheshire Puss and domestic cats that keep us on our toes: For example, cats do get angry and, when provoked, horripilate, that is, make their fur stand on end so they look bigger and more threatening.”
“Charles Darwin was particularly struck by the fact that in this more extreme state of anger, cats do not bother to horripilate.”
“But for that brief moment it was like seeing myself through someone else's eyes, and it made me horripilate*, it was such a weird feeling.”
“from horrere we also get the words “horror” and “horripilate” (which means making the hair stand up in fear), which also related to the word “hedgehog” (!)”
Even Bad Boys - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
““horripilate” … sowndz laik tehy stowled taht wurd from teh lolcat!”
Even Bad Boys - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“[1. horripilate] (verb) cause (someone's) hair to stand on end and to have goosebumps.”
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
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Atypical
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