Both Uses of
shrewd
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- FAIRY Either I mistake your shape and making quite, Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he That frights the maidens of the villagery; Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern, And bootless make the breathless housewife churn; And sometime make the drink to bear no barm; Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?†
Scene 2.1shrewd = smart
- HELENA O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd: She was a vixen when she went to school; And, though she be but little, she is fierce.†
Scene 3.2 *
Definition:
smart -- especially in negotiating with people (may infer underhanded dealings)