Entry #7

Entry #7

Shakespeare is the most quoted poet and has influenced many words in the English dictionary. His quotations have passed down onto everyday language. Shakespeare has influenced over 1,700 words in the English oxford dictionary.
These are some words that Shakespeare has invented:

Jaded: dulled or worn out.
From King Henry VI

Hobnob: to associate on friendly terms
From Twelfth Night

Cold-blooded: without emotion or feeling
King John

Zany: one who plays a clown or fool
From Love’s Labour Lost

Swagger:
From A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Courtship: the wooing of one person or another
From Love’s Labour Lost

Countless: to numerous to count
From Titus Andronicus

Torture: the act of excruciating pain
From King Henry VI

Unreal: not real or actual
From Macbeth

Worthless: without worth or useless
From King Henry VI

All of these words are still used in the English language today. Pretty good for a man that was alive over a hundred years ago.