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perscopate.

to bristle or horripilate

10 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈpɜːskəpeɪt/
  1. to bristle or horripilate

    archaic
Where this word comes from

From per- (“throughout, thoroughly”) + + Latin scōpātus, from scōpāre (“sweep”), from scōpa (“broom, bundle of sticks”) (classically only found as plural scōpae). By surface analysis, per- + scop(a) + -ate.

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