When you step into the freezing winter air, your body might do this sudden shaking motion. Remove my first letter, and I become a long, flowing body of natural water. What am I?
Shiver
The shaking motion is a shiver, an involuntary reflex caused by extreme winter cold. Deleting the initial letter 'S' reveals 'river', a wide natural stream of flowing water. Noticing when a common verb contains a complete geographical term minus its first letter is the key to solving this riddle.
About this riddle
Wordplay riddles depend on how words look and sound. Watch for double meanings, hidden words and letters you can move or remove.
Difficulty: Medium. More like this: Wordplay riddles with answers or try Anagrid for a different kind of puzzle.
More wordplay riddles
I crumble under a teacher's fingers while whispering across dark slate, leaving behind pale words that vanish completely with a single sweep of felt. What school supply am I?
I sip cool apple cider at a picnic, yet I am also the dried field grass stuffing the belly of an autumn scarecrow. What am I?
What kind of storytelling creature loves to chirp exciting fairy tales from the top of a blooming apple tree?
What do you call a sleepy baby bird that wakes up too early in March?
Why did the burger invite the hot dog to a backyard party with open flames?
I drop from a majestic oak tree to feed squirrels in autumn, but if you split my sound in two, I sound like a single grain on a yellow cob. What am I?