40 Words You Can Trace Back To William Shakespeare

[xchrom]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/words-you-didnt-realise-william-shakespeare-invented




1. 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.

[earthside]

1. Meaning, of course ...

... Christopher Marlowe.

http://marloweshakespeare.org

[xchrom]

2. yeah...no. nt

[dmallind]

3. Neat trick if so - he died 20 yrd before some of them were written. nt

[TlalocW]

4. It's crazier than you thought...

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/070807.html
http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/070808.html
http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/070809.html

TlalocW

[mgc1961]

5. K&R

[Tanuki]

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]

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.