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suum

Shakespearean Definition:

Noun - an imitation of the noises that the wind makes

Frequency: 2

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

King Lear

A servingman , proud in heart and mind , that
curled my hair , wore gloves in my cap , served the
lust of my mistress’ heart and did the act of
darkness with her , swore as many oaths as I spake
words and broke them in the sweet face of heaven ;
one that slept in the contriving of lust and waked to
do it . Wine loved I deeply , dice dearly , and in
woman out-paramoured the Turk . False of heart ,
light of ear , bloody of hand ; hog in sloth , fox in
stealth , wolf in greediness , dog in madness , lion in
prey . Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling
of silks betray thy poor heart to woman . Keep thy
foot out of brothels , thy hand out of plackets , thy
pen from lenders’ books , and defy the foul fiend .
Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind ;
says suum , mun , nonny . Dolphin my boy , boy , sessa !
Let him trot by .

Titus Andronicus


Suum cuique is our Roman justice .
This prince in justice seizeth but his own .