methinks

[mi-thingks]

verb

Archaic.

past

methought 

1. it seems to me.

methinks

/ mɪˈθɪŋks /

verb

1. archaic,  (tr; takes a clause as object) it seems to me

Word History and Origins

Origin of methinks¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English me thinketh, Old English me thyncth; me, think ², -s ²

Example Sentences

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks,” she whispers of an overwrought performance shown on stage in the Shakespearean tragedy.

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Anne Boleyn, Wife No. 2, had it worse, methinks — and won’t let you forget it.

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Methinks that the nightmares to come with the indictment of Defendant Trump and co-Defendant Nauta are not to be had only by Defendant Trump but by us, right here at home in our own bedrooms.

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If David French, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg and the editors, reporters and columnists at the Times and the Post spent a single evening with those I associated with for 7 years, methinks their "save the GOP" yearning would die a death that Lady Macbeth could hardly stand to look at.

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But when I look at Othello, he’ll say, “Methinks it should be a huge eclipse of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe should yawn at alteration.”

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