methinks
Americanverb
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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
It was a leak made to help Twitter, methinks, but ended up dinging Disney’s stock price.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2016
And methinks the Monsignor may turn out to be the worst baddie of them all.
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2013
"I' faith," cried Polly, "my mother hath well parried your thrust, sir; and methinks the holy Bishop of Rochester was of the same mind with her."
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
I feared him, methought the ghost of all those dead sat on that glittering glaive.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
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
And when I did eate of those fishes, methought they were exceeding good.
From The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume I (of 2) by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza
I was going to practise the day after the next, and methought I will then discover.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
Despite the web, methought they saw, appalled, The stealthier weft in which all sound was still ...
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith
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