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English
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.
Pronunciation
Verb
shudder (third-person singular simple present shudders, present participle shuddering, simple past and past participle shuddered)
- (intransitive) To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.
On seeing the spider under his pillow, John shuddered.
1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: Richard Field, , →OCLC; 2nd edition, London: Richard Field, , 1594, →OCLC, signature Fiij, verso, lines :VVreath'd vp in fatall folds iuſt in his way, / The feare where of doth make him ſhake, & ſhudder, […]
- (intransitive) To vibrate jerkily.
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to shake nervously, as if from fear
- Albanian: fërgëlloj (sq)
- Czech: třást se
- Dutch: huiveren (nl)
- Finnish: väristä (fi), vavista (fi), tutista (fi), puistattaa (fi)
- French: frissonner (fr), trembler (fr)
- German: schaudern (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: φρίσσω (phríssō), ῥιγέω (rhigéō)
- Hebrew: הִתְפַּלֵּץ (he) (hitpalétz)
- Icelandic: skjálfa (is), hrylla við
- Italian: tremare (it)
- Latin: tremō, trepidō
- Maori: oi, winiwini, hihikiwi, hāwiniwini, wiwini, ihiihi
- Marathi: भीतिने कापणे (bhītine kāpṇe)
थरकाप (पु.), हुडहुडी (स्त्री.)
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Noun
shudder (plural shudders)
- 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.
1906 January, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], chapter 22, in A Son of the People: A Romance of the Hungarian Plains, London: Greening & Co., →OCLC:… 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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shivering tremor
- Azerbaijani: üşütmə, titrətmə, vicvicə
- Bulgarian: треперене (bg) n (treperene), потръпване (bg) n (potrǎpvane)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 戰慄/战栗 (zh) (zhànlì) or 戰栗/战栗 (zh) (zhànlì), 觳觫 (zh) (húsù)
- Czech: třesot m, třes (cs) m, třesavka f
- Dutch: rilling (nl)
- Finnish: väristys (fi), vapina, tutina, puistatus (fi)
- French: tremblement (fr) m, frisson (fr) m
- Galician: arrepío m, calafrío (gl) m
- German: Schauder (de) m
- Greek:
- Ancient: φρίκη f (phríkē), φρικασμός m (phrikasmós)
- Icelandic: hrollur (is) m, skjálfti (is) m
- Italian: brivido (it), sussulto (it) m, tremolio (it) m
- Maori: ngatari, ngateri
- Marathi: हुडहुडी f (huḍhuḍī)
- Old French: friçon m
- Persian: چندش (fa) (čendeš)
- Portuguese: arrepio (pt) m, calafrio (pt) m
- Romanian: tremur (ro) n, fiori m pl
- Russian: содрога́ние (ru) n (sodrogánije), дрожь (ru) f (drožʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: crith f
- Spanish: escalofrío (es) m
- Ukrainian: здрига́ння n (zdryhánnja)
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moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson
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