Chicken skin

/CHICKEN skin/

Goosebumps. Chills from something spooky or moving.

In Hawaii, you don't get goosebumps — you get chicken skin. From ghost stories, from a beautiful hula performance, from that hymn at church. Chicken skin. Glen Grant's "Chicken Skin" ghost story books were famous in Hawaii for a reason.

Examples

  • Dat story gave me chicken skin.
  • Stay chicken skin when she wen sing.

Origin

Pidgin English

descriptive

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Smart. Clever. Sharp.

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Broken. Torn up. Destroyed.

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Big. Huge. Extra large.

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Bald. A bald person.

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