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
Instead, they seem to be, in the words of Shakespeare, "protesting too much, methinks".
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2018
Irving has made this point so often that he doth protest too much, methinks, but this time he invokes Shakespeare.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2015
One day she comes into his library, and salutes him thus: "Mr. Lacy, I would I were a book; and then methinks you would a little more respect me."
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
She sighed a murmur of dispraise, At which, methought, the rafters shook.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott
Whilom, ere youth's conceit had waned, methought Answers to all life's problems I had wrought; But now, grown old and wise, too late I see My life is spent, and all my lore is naught.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
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
As I looked back, methought I saw Stefano the guide and the women having it out pretty well with reference to the undivided fee.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
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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