shudder
verbEtymology
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.
- derived from *skewdʰ-✻
- derived from *skudjaną✻
- derived from schodderen
- derived from schudderen
- inherited from schoderen
Definitions
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, […]
- What makes me shudder so? / I shudder and I sigh to think / That even Cicero / And many-minded Homer were / Mad as the mist and snow.
To vibrate jerkily.
A shivering tremor, often from fear or horror.
- Seeing the spider under his pillow gave John a shudder.
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A moment of almost pleasurable fear
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?
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Derived
shudderer, shudderful, shudderingly, shuddersome, shuddery, unshuddering, shudder quote
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA