Did you know Shakespeare invented the word Bedroom?

[hollydolly]

..whereas before that, it had always been called Bed Chamber...


The English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare. He invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising words wholly original. Below is a list of a few of the words Shakespeare coined or adapted,

 

[MountainRa]

The only one that surprised me was ‘puking’. Just seems like that is a more modern slang term.

 

[hollydolly]

The only one that surprised me was ‘puking’. Just seems like that is a more modern slang term.

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. ..."


How Shakespeare uses it: "Puking" was first recorded in Shakespeare's "As You Like It." which he wrote in about 1600 AD It was likely an English imitation of the German word "spucken," which means to spit, according to Dictionary.com.

 

[Sunkist]

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. ..."


How Shakespeare uses it: "Puking" was first recorded in Shakespeare's "As You Like It." which he wrote in about 1600 AD It was likely an English imitation of the German word "spucken," which means to spit, according to Dictionary.com.

But in Shakespeare's day, didn't that word mean 'spitting up,' like the fluid babies occasionally had in their mouths?

 

[Sunkist]

The only one that surprised me was ‘puking’. Just seems like that is a more modern slang term.

In the way I've heard it used, it's a low-class, disgusting term for 'vomit.'

 

[hollydolly]

In the way I've heard it used, it's a low-class, disgusting term for 'vomit.'

it's not low class here... it's a very commonly used word to mean someone vomitting

 

[Coconut]

Interesting facts about Shakespeare @hollydolly.

I always disliked the term puking, however it does describe what it means. Anyway one describes it, it is disgusting.

Well I say, say what you feel comfortable saying.
As soon as I learn proper word speech, they change it or change the meaning of the word.