Wednesday Words – A Cold Plunge

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Extreme Swimming #2 by Andrey Papko on Flickr. He has granted license for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic.

You know the feeling – when you jump into or have cold water poured over you – that gasp, that surge, THAT feeling. What’s it called? Shock? no not quite you knew it was coming when you jumped. Well don’t worry language’s got you covered thanks to the Scottish there’s a word for that…

CURGLAFF

Noun – the sensory shock experienced when plunged into cold water.

Thank you Scots…

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