methinks
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methought
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Etymology
Origin of methinks
First recorded before 900; Middle English me thinketh, Old English me thyncth; see origin at me, think 2, -s 2
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Anne Boleyn, Wife No. 2, had it worse, methinks — and won’t let you forget it.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
A case of once bitten, twice shy, methinks.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2022
Bentley is accused of having only used indexes and dictionaries: “Dr. Bentley methinks should have dug deeper for his materials, and consulted Original Authors.”
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2022
Also, leaving out The Bowery Boys & Puma Perl & Friends are rather glaring omissions, methinks.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2017
Yet methinks you will view it in charity.
From Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent by J. (Jesse) Clement
This youth that you see here, I snatch'd one half out of the jaws of death; And to his image, which, methought, did promise Most venerable worth, did I devotion.
From Twelfth Night or, What You Will by J P Kemble
For methought that a goodly man was bearing me off through the pleasant willow-groves, by the river-banks, and places strange to me.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
And methought, "Is not this a beautiful parable for us?"
From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various
How strange, methought, I should have lived so near, Nor ever worshipp'd Nature's altar here!
From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by John Lyde Wilson
And just as a bulky sugar puncheon, All ready staved, like a great sun shone Glorious, scarce an inch before me, Just as methought it said, 'Come, bore me!'
From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades by Various
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