We have changed our privacy policy. In addition, we use cookies on our website for various purposes. By continuing on our website, you consent to our use of cookies. You can learn about our practices by reading our privacy policy.

Shakespeare Words

Shakespearean, not stirred.

If Shakespeare wrote it, we've Shmooped it.

Hurry

Invented in The Comedy of Errors

That desperately he hurried through the street (5.1.142)

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

Back to Shmooping Shakespeare