methinks
Americanverb
past
methoughtverb
Etymology
Origin of methinks
First recorded before 900; Middle English me thinketh, Old English me thyncth; me, think 2, -s 2
Example Sentences
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“I’m off to the wedding. Methinks I shall fetch a bit of gold today. Wouldn’t that be something? Be good and rest, and I shall bring you back a coin made by your very own queen. Maybe some good will come of it. There’s bread and more pies, dear. Tuck in and eat, eat, eat! I hate to see such skinny bones on a growing boy.”
From Literature
“The lady doth protest too much, methinks,” she whispers of an overwrought performance shown on stage in the Shakespearean tragedy.
From Barron's
Anne Boleyn, Wife No. 2, had it worse, methinks — and won’t let you forget it.
From Seattle Times
But when I look at Othello, he’ll say, “Methinks it should be a huge eclipse of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe should yawn at alteration.”
From Seattle Times
A case of once bitten, twice shy, methinks.
From BBC
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