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Webster 1913 Edition
Methinks
Me-thinks′
,Verb.
impers.
[
imp.
Methought
.] [AS.
þyncan
to seem, mē þynceð
, mē þūhte
, OE. me thinketh
, me thoughte
; akin to G. dünken
to seem, denken
to think, and E. think
. See Me
, and Think
.] It seems to me; I think. See
Me
. [R., except in poetry.]
In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and,
methinks
, not without great cause. Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Methinks
METHINKS
,Verb.
Definition 2024
methinks
methinks
English
Alternative forms
- me thinks, mythinks, my thinks
Contraction
methinks (past tense: methought)
- (archaic or humorous) It seems to me.
- ~870-899, Alfred the Great:
- Forthy me thincth betre,
gif iow swæ thincth,
thæt we eac sumæ bec
- Forthy me thincth betre,
- ~1350-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer:
- Me thinketh accordant to reason
To telle you al the condicion
- Me thinketh accordant to reason
- 1591, William Shakespeare, King Richard III: III, i
- methinks the truth should live from age to age,
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act III, scene II
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
- 2003, Arrested Development, "Bringing Up Buster":
- Dr. Tobias Funke: Methinks a cupid I shall play.
- ~870-899, Alfred the Great:
Translations
it seems to me
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References
- J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.