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the body's full-frame flinch when fear or disgust skips the brain entirely
means to tremble or shake convulsively, usually from fear, cold, or revulsion
from From Middle English shoddren or schoderen, and a cousin of Middle Dutch and Low German shudderen — all of them likely echoing an older Germanic root meaning to shake or quiver. The doubled-d gives the word its own physical tremor, the kind that rattles out of you before you've decided to feel anything at all.
- reflex root
- Shares circuitry with the shiver that warms you
- goosebumps kin
- Tiny muscles fluffing hairs you no longer have
- phantom origin
- Echo of mammals making fur look bigger
- the word
- From Middle English meaning to tremble with cold
- contagious
- Watching someone shudder can trigger your own
for instance
shudder to think — common english idiom meaning to be horrified at the thought of something
shudder island — real island in the san juan islands, washington state, usa