methinks
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From me (object pronoun = "to me") + think (from Old English þyncan). In Early Modern English, used at least 150 times by William Shakespeare; in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer, me thinketh; and in Old English by Alfred the Great, me þyncþ.
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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[edit]
it seems to me
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References[edit]
- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989