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Piloerection (goose bumps), the physical part of frisson. Frisson (UK: / ˈ f r iː s ɒ n / FREE-son, US: / f r iː ˈ s oʊ n / free-SOHN [1] [2] French:; French for "shiver"), also known as aesthetic chills or psychogenic shivers, is a psychophysiological response to rewarding stimuli (including music, films, stories, people, photos, and rituals [3]) that often induces a pleasurable or ...
Shiver is an upcoming American romantic fantasy film directed by Claire McCarthy and co-written by Jett Tattersall. It is based on the young adult novel of the same name by Maggie Stiefvater . It stars Maddie Ziegler , Levi Miller , Sofia Wylie , Iman Vellani , Lyon Daniels, Alexander Ludwig , Ross Butler , Alicia Witt , Greg Kinnear , and Neil ...
"Shiver my top-sails, my Laſs, if I know a better way." "Shiver me timbers" (or "shiver my timbers" in Standard English) is an exclamation in the form of a mock oath usually attributed to the speech of pirates in works of fiction. It is employed as a literary device by authors to express shock, surprise, or annoyance.
So, let me–a Zillenial–break down the 29 most important Gen Z slang terms for you to whip out at the next family gathering. And trust me, from simp to stan, these terms are anything but basic.
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Bold textSuggestion: the reference to splintering in English as an explanation of "shiver" confirms my suspicion that this old word in English was derived from the Hebrew word "shavar" which means "break", but can also mean splinter when referring to wood. It is interesting, that one can look at any language on the face of the earth and find ...
Located in the posterior hypothalamus near the wall of the third ventricle is an area called the primary motor center for shivering. [citation needed] This area is normally inhibited by signals from the heat center in the anterior hypothalamic-preoptic area but is excited by cold signals from the skin and spinal cord.
Down the road, working man's cafe sells bunny chows. Take it with you, eat it at a plastic table's top, wipe your fingers on your jeans, spit a little on the floor: it's in the bone. I back from the glass, boy again, leaving small mean O of small mean mouth. Hands burn for a stone, a bomb, to shiver down the glass. Nothing's changed.