Category: Literature
Created by: Carissa
Number of Blossarys: 6
While the noun blanket had long been used, Shakespeare was the first to use it as a verb meaning: to cover.
This is another word which was used before as a noun, but Shakespeare coined as a verb. It was first seen in Timon of Athens.
Describing animals as cold-blooded was not Shakespeare's intent. Rather, in Kind John he first used to term to mean someone who was behaving in a heartless manner.
In an example of poetic license, Shakespeare was the first to use deafening to mean something that was very loud, yet did not actually make a person deaf. It was first seen in II Henry IV.
Shakespeare didn't mind borrowing from other languages. Domineering has been around in the Netherlands as a Dutch word, but Love's Labour's Lost was the first time it was used in the the English ...
While people had embraced before, they had never just enjoyed an embrace. Shakespeare was the first to use this verb as a noun in I Henry VI.
Just like now in Shakespeare's time there were farms and houses. He was the first to create a compound term by combining to two words in The Merry Wives of Windsor.