shudder
verb
- shudder
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈʃʌdəː/ / [ˈʃʰʌ̹dəː] / /ˈʃʌdɚ/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English schoderen, from Middle Dutch schudderen and/or Middle Low German schodderen, iterative forms of the verb at hand in Dutch schudden, Low German schüdden (both “to shake”), German schütten (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *skudjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewdʰ-. From Low German are also borrowed German schaudern (“to shudder”), Danish skudre.
- A shivering tremor, often from fear or horror.
“Seeing the spider under his pillow gave John a shudder.”
- A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.
“They name thee before me, / A knell to mine ear; / A shudder comes o'er me— / Why wert thou so dear?”
“… and was not that slight tremble, a shudder which went through her young body, when his kiss, glowing and scorching with his wild passion, had dared to touch her tiny ice-cold hand?”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English schoderen, from Middle Dutch schudderen and/or Middle Low German schodderen, iterative forms of the verb at hand in Dutch schudden, Low German schüdden (both “to shake”), German schütten (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *skudjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewdʰ-. From Low German are also borrowed German schaudern (“to shudder”), Danish skudre.
- To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.
“On seeing the spider under his pillow, John shuddered.”
“VVreath'd vp in fatall folds iuſt in his way, / The feare where of doth make him ſhake, & ſhudder, […]”
- To vibrate jerkily.