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Methines vs Methinks - What's the difference?

methines | methinks |

As a noun methines

is .

As a contraction methinks is

(archaic|or|humorous) it seems to me.

methines

English

Noun

(head)

    • methinks

    English

    Alternative forms

    * me thinks, mythinks, my thinks

    Contraction

    (en-cont) (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
  • * ~1350-1400 , Geoffrey Chaucer:
    • Me thinketh accordant to reason
    To telle you al the condicion
  • * 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 , ":
    • Dr. Tobias Funke: Methinks a cupid I shall play.

    References

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    See also

    * methought (archaic) * meseems (obsolete) * mehopes