Shakespeare Words

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Hurry

Invented in The Comedy of Errors

“
That desperately he hurried through the street (5.1.142)
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Shakespeare probably heard people saying hurren when he was young. It mean "to vibrate rapidly," so he just dropped the last part of that word and formed a new one, meaning to do pretty much anything rapidly.


Tag: The Comedy of Errors

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