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We call them goosebumps now, but they used to be called gooseflesh or goose-flesh or goose flesh. The reason is pretty icky: that's what a dead goose looks like after his feathers have been pulled out prior to cooking. Looking at a dead chicken from the grocery store can give you the general idea, but goose feathers are larger, so the bumps where they have been pulled out are larger too.
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The alternate name for goose-bumps is goose-flesh. The Germans use an almost identical term Gaensehaut (gooseskin) and the Italians say pelle d'oca( goose-skin). All of these draw from the appearance of a goodse when it has been plucked. This is a European visual thing. Other cultures, such as the Indonesians, do not see the bumps as anything to do with geese.
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They are called goose bumps because the hairs sticking out of the little bumps represent goose flesh after they've been plucked. In Dutch they are called 'kippevel' meaning chickenskin :)
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In Hawaii we call it "Chicken Skin" which is a direct translation of Japanese "Tori Hada" meaning Goose bumps (chicken-like skin).
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