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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums40 Words You Can Trace Back To William Shakespeare
http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/words-you-didnt-realise-william-shakespeare-invented1. Eyeball.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act III, Scene ii.
2. Puking.
As You Like It, Act II, Scene vii.
3. Obscene.
Love's Labours Lost, Act I, Scene i.
4. Cold-blooded.
King John, Act III, Scene i.
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40 Words You Can Trace Back To William Shakespeare (Original Post)
xchrom
Apr 2013
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earthside
(6,960 posts)1. Meaning, of course ...
... Christopher Marlowe.
http://marloweshakespeare.org
xchrom
(108,903 posts)2. yeah...no. nt
dmallind
(10,437 posts)3. Neat trick if so - he died 20 yrd before some of them were written. nt
TlalocW
(15,380 posts)4. It's crazier than you thought...
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)6. I've always wondered if first citation in the OED
really means that he coined the word, or that it was the first time it actually appeared in print. A word could have been present in the vernacular prior being used in a published play.
mucifer
(23,525 posts)7. The article says that Shakespeare had the first know written acknowledgement
of these words. So they could have been written in other works that we don't know about and/or they might have been used in everyday spoken language.