What does hedge pig mean Shakespeare?
A hedgehog. Back to the Witches’ Chants (4.1)
What is flap Dragon Shakespeare? 236. “A flap-dragon is some small combustible body, fired at one end, and put afloat in a glass of liquor. It is an act of a toper’s dexterity to toss off the glass in such a manner as to prevent the flapdragon from doing mischief” (JOHNSON) .
Likewise What does greasy mean in Shakespearean?
greasy. vulgar. grizzled. grey, sprinkled with grey hairs. haughty.
What does broil mean in Macbeth? broil (n.) turmoil, confused fighting, battle.
What does common kissing mean in Shakespeare?
common-kissing: kissing all alike Cym.
What is a boar pig Shakespeare? boar-pig: young boar 2H4 II.
A Shakespeare Glossary.
What does Beslubbering mean in Shakespeare?
Thou cockered tardy-gaited ratsbane. Thou beslubbering bat-fowling bladder! cheating. a deception for profit to yourself.
What is malt worm in Shakespeare? maltworm, malt-worm (n.) Old form(s): Maltwormes, Mault-Wormes. drinker [of malt-liquor], drunkard, inebriate.
What does Elf skinned mean?
An elf-skin is “a man of shrivelled and shrunken form,” says the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
What does fly bitten mean in Shakespeare? : marked by or as if by the bite of flies.
What does sheep biting mean in Shakespeare?
In Shakespeare’s universe (and lexicon), biting your thumb at someone may show derision, but the biting of sheep might just indicate a person’s un-trustworthiness.
What does limbeck mean in Macbeth? New account. limbeck (n.) Old form(s): Lymbeck , Lymbecks. retort, distilling apparatus, alembic.
What does mirth mean in Macbeth?
Mirth. Definition: gladness and gaiety accompanied with much laughter.
What does lechery mean in Macbeth? lechery. excessive indulgence in sexual activity.
What is the meaning of boil brained?
Boil-brained. (adj) – Hot-head, maniac, headstrong fellow.
What is common kissing? common-kissing: kissing all alike Cym.
Oxford.
What does Beetle headed mean?
1 : a stupid person.
What does beef witted mean? Filters. (obsolete) Stupid; dull. adjective.
What is a dollop head?
a word that means ‘total idiot’ used in the TV series Merlin. Arthur is a dollophead, according to Merlin.
What does it mean to be onion eyed? Having the eyes filled with tears, as if by the effect of an onion applied to them.
What does flax wench mean?
A woman who spins flax. A prostitute.
How do you say shut up in Shakespeare? “O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears. (a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)”
What does guts griping mean?
guts-griping: Troil.
“guts-griping, ruptures”; Dryden in his version has ‘gut-gripings, ruptures’). A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions.
What does heaven hued mean? heaven-hued: blue Compl.
A Shakespeare Glossary.