what words did Shakespeare add to the English language?

Answer 1

I have got a book called 'Brush Up on your Shakespeare' and there are literally pages of words coined by the bard.

A few of the more commonly used word usages are -

admirable
airless
barefaced
to bedazzle
to besmirch
bloodstained
to cater (as in purvey food)
to champion
cold-hearted
dawn (the noun)
dexterously (W.S. spelled it dexteriously)
dog-weary
embrace
to enthrone
to ensnare
eyeball
farmhouse
fitful
footfall
foul-mouthed
gust
hell-born
ill-tempered
impartial
kitchen-wench (!)
ladybird
lucklustre
leapfrog
love letter
mimic (noun)
mountaineer
nimble-footed
obscene
outbreak
to outsell
to outweigh
to overpower
pendulous
posture
to puke
retirement
to reverb
to rival
to sate
satisfying (adj)
self-abuse (W.S. meant self-deception)
shooting star
silk stocking
successful
suffocating (adj)
to supervise
tardiness
uncomfortable (in the sense disquieting)
unhelpful
unmitigated
unsullied
unwillingness
upstairs
useful
varied (adj)
vulnerable
watchdog
well-behaved


Phew, and that really was but a few!

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Answer 2

Shakespeare did no longer upload any words to the Engish language...the term "Shakespearian English" is concerning the English in a volume of time...they use Shakespearian by using fact he's a hassle-free determine, that maximum affiliate with fifteenth-century England...desire I helped!:)

Answer 3

Shakespeare's additions to the English LANGUAGE:

a) vocabulary
- credited by the Oxford English Dictionary with the introduction of nearly 3,000 words into English
http://www.bardweb.net/language.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_invented_by_Shakespeare

b) In addition, he introduced or popularized numerous idioms and phrases
a list of 1200:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-sayings-shakespeare.html

Answer 4

DRAG. It was a cue on the scrips he wrote. An abbrevition for DRess As Girl. That's the only one I know not yet listed above.

Answer 5

To be, or not to be (from Hamlet 3/1)
To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.

Answer 6

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