methinks

[ mi-thingks ]

/ mɪˈθɪŋks /

verb (impersonal); past me·thought. Archaic.

it seems to me.

Nearby words

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Origin of methinks

before 900; Middle English me thinketh, Old English me thyncth. See me, think², -s²

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Examples from the Web for methinks

Methinks its owner doth protest too much—but wearing such a thing in 1968, he might have had no choice.
Real Men Wear Velvet: The Peacock Male|Blake Gopnik|February 5, 2011|DAILY BEAST
But then, if so, methinks I would hate her (that is, me) more than ever.
A Monk of Fife|Andrew Lang
Methinks you, by your native qualities, are as well entitled to her favor as ever your progenitor could have been.
The Marble Faun, Volume II.|Nathaniel Hawthorne
Now, with a few fair girls to sing a ghuzul or two to us, methinks a heaven might be made out of this wild spot.
Confessions of a Thug|Philip Meadows Taylor

Methinks I was nearly in this frame of mind; the world lay about at this angle.
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience|Henry David Thoreau
Methinks you would be a kind master; and he is a loving and faithful creature.
Tom Tufton's Travels|Evelyn Everett-Green

British Dictionary definitions for methinks

methinks

/ (mɪˈθɪŋks) /

verb past methought

(tr; takes a clause as object) archaic it seems to me

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