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superserviceable

Shakespearean Definition:

Adjective - being overly helpful, offering too much service than required

Frequency: 1

Here are all of the speeches where superserviceable shows up across the corpus:

King Lear

A knave , a rascal , an eater of broken meats ; a
base , proud , shallow , beggarly , three-suited , hundred-pound ,
filthy worsted-stocking knave ; a lily-livered ,
action-taking , whoreson , glass-gazing , superserviceable ,
finical rogue ; one-trunk-inheriting
slave ; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good
service , and art nothing but the composition of a
knave , beggar , coward , pander , and the son and heir
of a mongrel bitch ; one whom I will beat into
clamorous whining if thou deny’st the least syllable
of thy addition .