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Rant

Popularized in Hamlet

“
I'll rant as well as thou (5.1.269)
”

This one comes to us from Dutch (randten) and German (rantzen). It was so popular in England that the word rantipole was slang for a rude dude in Shakespeare's day.


Tag: Hamlet

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