Falstaff
Portly comic knight
Falstaff is a fat, witty, cowardly knight in Shakespeare's *Henry IV* plays and *The Merry Wives of Windsor*—a comic figure of appetites and self-serving bluster.
The name has become shorthand for a jovial, dissolute companion: He was the Falstaff of our college years, always ready with a joke and a drink.
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
- knightHonored mounted soldier
- HalShortened masculine name
- tavernPublic drinking establishment
- comicFunny performer or publication
rogue · coward · braggart · wit · highwayman · buffoon · rascal · reprobate
Excessively heavy-bodied
portly · obesity · gluttony · sweating · bulk · paunch · heavy · largeness
Italian opera composer
Seeker of sensual satisfaction
- revelerOne who celebrates boisterously
- drunkardChronic heavy drinker
- carouserOne who revels noisily
- libertineOne lacking moral restraint
merrymaker · sensualist · bon-vivant · wastrel · sot · toper · sybarite · epicurean
Shakespeare
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
comic · rogue · coward · braggart · wit · highwayman · buffoon · rascal · reprobate · rejection
corpulent
Excessively heavy-bodied
fat · portly · obesity · gluttony · sweating · bulk · paunch · heavy · largeness · bloated
Verdi
Italian opera composer
libretto · Ford · Alice · finale · fugue · ensemble · operatic
hedonist
Seeker of sensual satisfaction
libertine · merrymaker · sensualist · bon-vivant · wastrel · sot · toper · sybarite · epicurean · roisterer
ale
Warm-fermented malt drink
cask · amber · pub · draught · malt · hops · pint · porter · stout · lager
- Shakespeare RoguesIago, Pompey, Edmund, Aaron, Richard III
- ShakespeareRomeo, Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello
- Rosesroses, tea rose, hybrid tea rose, climbing rose, wild rose
- operaopera, aria, arias, soprano, tenor
- Shakespeare CharactersHamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo, Juliet
- American BeersPabst, Schlitz, Schaefer, Ballantine, Olympia
FalstaffDon Quixote
Delusional self-proclaimed knight-errant
Cassius · ascetic · thin man · Ichabod Crane · Jack Sprat