Shakespeare Words
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If Shakespeare wrote it, we've Shmooped it.
Eyeball
Popularized in A Midsummer Night's Dream“ | Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye, | |
| Whose liquor hath this virtuous property | ||
| To take from thence all error with his might | ||
| And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight. | ||
| When they next wake, all this derision | ” |
In the 1580s, someone tossed together eye and ball—and it stuck. After popularizing this word, Shakespeare came up with eyedrop, eyesore,and eyewink. Now stop eyewinking at us ;) |