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
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
And now methinks I see Uncle Labourn making as if he would call us to the house, and there are the horses coming to the door.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
Methought I saw her then, my love, my fair, My beauty, my ideal; the dim clouds Lifted, methought, a little—or was it Fond Fancy only?
From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir
Lo, they fell to dancing up and down methought, and the next—moment—all—was—dark.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
She sighed a murmur of dispraise, At which, methought, the rafters shook.
From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe
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 Reade, Charles
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 Mendoza, Juan Gonzalez de
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