goose skin

What does goose skin mean?

goose skin means "reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation".

What is another word for goose skin?

Close synonyms include pilomotor reflex, gooseflesh, goose bump, goosebump, goose pimple. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is goose skin a common word?

goose skin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for goose skin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.