Lilliputian, brobdingnagian, yahoo; newspeak, big brother; catch-22; shangri-la; malaprop:

All these words originated in literary works but have taken on a life of their own. What are some other examples of this phenomenon?

If you include mythology in literature, then Procrustian, Myrmidon, Gordian Knot, ambrosia, and numerous others.


jabberwocky (from poem of same name)
robot (from R.U.R., or possibly from karel's brother joseph)
xanadu (did Coleridge coin this or was that really a place?)
sour grapes, and many other phrases I can think of at the moment (aesop)





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Man Friday,sea change, grinch, I got lazy and found a site about Shakespeare, in WorldWideWords.com
http://www.quinion.com/words/reviews/shakespeare.htm

Here are some I took from another site:http://www.m-w.com/lighter/shak/ShakHome.htm
You have to scroll down quite a ways.When you find the words, clicking on them brings up discussion. academe alligator bloodstained hobnob leapfrog lonely mountaineer pander
skim milk viewless watchdog xantippe