Many words in English were coined by William Shakespeare.
Here is a very small list of words he invented:
- Accused
- Addiction
- Advertising
- Amazement
- Arouse
- Assassination
- Bandit
- Bedroom
- Beached
- Blanket
- Bump
- Cater
- Champion
- Countless
- Epileptic
- Fixture
- Flawed
- Generous
- Hint
- Lonely
- Mimic
- Negotiate
- Obscene
- Premeditated
- Rant
- Puke
- Summit
- Torture
- Varied
- Worthless
- Zany