You are here

Word Nerd: "pittance"
Context and Language Videos
Act 4,
Scene 4
Line 61

An explanation of the origin of the word "pittance" in Act 4, Scene 4 of myShakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

myShakespeare | Taming of the Shrew 4.4 Word Nerd: “pittance”

Tranio-as-Lucentio

You are like to have a thin and slender pittance.