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/ˈwɪli/
A feeling of fear or nervousness, especially the creepy, kind that a place or a thing gives you when nothing is actually happening. It is almost always used as the willies, with give or get: something gives you the willies.
發毛；心裡毛毛的
複數 willies
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: a feeling that crawls up your back in a quiet, half-dark place. Nothing is chasing you. A door clicks, a doll stares, the lights are already off — and your skin decides to be afraid before your head does. That small, creep is what the phrase names, and it only ever comes in the plural, as the willies.
可以想成：在安靜又半暗的地方，有一股涼意從背後爬上來。沒有人追你，也沒有真正的危險。只是門喀一聲、娃娃一直盯著你、燈…更多收起
可以想成：在安靜又半暗的地方，有一股涼意從背後爬上來。沒有人追你，也沒有真正的危險。只是門喀一聲、娃娃一直盯著你、燈已經關了，皮膚就先怕了，腦袋還來不及解釋。「the willies」抓的就是這一小段說不出原因的發毛，而且永遠是複數、前面加 the。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Williename/ˈwɪli/
- 1
A diminutive of the male given name William.
- Well agreed, Willie; then sit thee down, swain; Such a song never heardest thou but Colin sing.
- Not one of his old friends but had been taken to task, in Willie's familiar note of boyish plaintiveness: "Why don't you call me by my own name? I never did like 'Willie' - 'William' isn't so bad. But the other sounds like pinafores and bed sheets."
- 2
A diminutive of the female given name Wilhelmina or a feminine diminutive of William, often in the form Willie Mae.
- Most of the names sounded white. There was Willie Mae Jones, Leroy Washington, Roosevelt Tucker, Bessie Lou Bean, and a few other black names. But the list looked awfully pale.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。