methinks
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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
For my fellow Iranian-Americans who are struggling with it: You doth protest too much, methinks.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2012
The words of Beatrix’s maid in Much Ado About Nothing spring to the mind: “But methinks you look with your eyes as other women do.”
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen
A potter at his work I chanced to see, Pounding some earth and shreds of pottery; I looked with eyes of insight, and methought 'Twas Adam's dust with which he made so free!
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar
She sighed a murmur of dispraise, At which, methought, the rafters shook.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
There was less flouncing and fanning, methought, than in the larger town; but no doubt the usual telegraphy was carried on, only in a more covert manner, as became the severer exigencies of village decorum.
From A Trip to Cuba by Howe, Julia Ward
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
Only methought the time too swiftly pass’d, And every note I fear’d would be the last.
From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by Hazlitt, William
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