Shakespeare’s new-fangled words include, well, ‘new-fangled’ as well as ‘bedazzled’, ‘birth-place’, ‘cold-blooded’, ‘cold-hearted’, ‘eyeball’, ‘fortune-teller’, ‘puppy-dog’, ‘shooting star’, ‘unreal’ and ‘well-read’ to name but a few. Phrases attributed to him include ‘Blinking idiot’, ‘Brave new world’, ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’, ‘In my heart of hearts’, ‘Jealousy is the green-eyed monster’, ‘Neither rhyme nor reason’, ‘Own flesh and blood’, ‘Too much of a good thing’ and ’What’s done is done’.
