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
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
It was a leak made to help Twitter, methinks, but ended up dinging Disney’s stock price.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2016
Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain—50 Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge!
From Poems on Travel by Various
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
When I read the words, The cruel words, methought my heart stood still, And when the ebbing life returned I seemed To have lost all thought of Love.
From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Sir Lewis Morris
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
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 William Hazlitt
"Yea, well," I cried; "and that I was so angered at her patience, which methought was foolish, yea, wicked in its excess, that it did throw me into a passion."
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
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