Some words and phrases first coined by the Bard, or at least first attested in his work.

WORDS

- Amazement
- Apostrophe
- Assassination
- Bloody
- Courtship
- Critic
- Dislocate
- Generous
- Gloomy
- Gnarled
- Laughable
- Lonely
- Multitudinous
- Obscene
- Puking
- Pious
- Radiance
- Submerge
- Suspicious
- Swagger
- Trippingly
- Well-bred
- Zany
PHRASES

- Eaten out of house and home
- Foregone conclusion
- Full circle
- Method in his madness
- Neither rhyme nor reason
- One fell swoop
- Pomp and circumstance
- Seen better days
- It smells to heaven
- A sorry sight
- A spotless reputation
- Strange bedfellows
- The green-eyed monster
- The makings of
- The world's (my) oyster