merrymake
English
Etymology
From make merry.
Verb
merrymake (third-person singular simple present merrymakes, present participle merrymaking, simple past and past participle merrymade)
- (archaic, literary) To make merry, have fun, celebrate.
Noun
merrymake (plural merrymakes)
- (archaic, literary) Merry-making, celebration, festivity.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:
- when he saw her toy, and gibe, and geare, / And passe the bonds of modest merimake, / Her dalliance he despisd, and follies did forsake.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi: