Shakespeare Words
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If Shakespeare wrote it, we've Shmooped it.
Bump
Invented in Romeo and Juliet“ | Yes, madam. Yet I cannot choose but laugh | |
| To think it should leave crying and say "ay." | ||
| And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow | ||
| A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone, | ||
| A perilous knock, and it cried bitterly. | ||
| "Yea," quoth my husband, "Fall'st upon thy face? | ||
| Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age. | ” |
Sixteenth-century folks already knew how to say that someone bumped into them, but Shakespeare went and made it a noun. (He was a big fan of that.) We wonder if he got the idea from all the hair bumps going on back then. |
Tag: Romeo and Juliet