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
What an enchanting sight beneath a full moon, methinks.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2021
And this cheat or wizard, for methinks one or other of those names must needs belong to him, predicted to my lord that he should be in great danger to be overthrown by a woman.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur
His pleasantry was received with an uproarious merriment, which methought it hardly merited.
From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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 Julia Ward Howe
"But," said Judith, timidly, "methought you said you were going out with these same desperate men?"
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black
For, methought we were still steering to the South, when on our larboard hand uprose a range of lofty hills, upon which it seemed to me that I could almost have jumped.
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by William Young
She made good view of me; indeed, so much, That, sure, methought, her eyes had lost her tongue, For she did speak in starts distractedly.
From Twelfth Night or, What You Will by J P Kemble
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