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the body's quietest doorway, where a whisper or a kiss undoes you completely
means The back of the neck, where it meets the base of the skull.
from From Middle English nape, of uncertain origin — it surfaces in the language without a clear ancestor, which is fitting for so hidden a place. Some have linked it to a Frisian word for a knob or bone, but the connection isn't proven, so the nape keeps its secret along with everything else that lives back there.
- hidden trigger
- Dense nerve endings make it wildly ticklish and sensitive
- predator instinct
- Big cats kill by biting prey's nape
- mother's grip
- Kittens go limp when held there
- vampire territory
- Folklore's bite of choice for a reason
- word roots
- From a Germanic term simply meaning back-neck
for instance
nape of the neck — the back of the human neck, where hair often grows and where the skull meets the spine
nape piercing — body modification piercing at the back of the neck, popularized in alternative fashion since the 1990s