Methinks vs Methinkst - What's the difference?

methinks | methinkst |

In archaic or humorous terms the difference between methinks and methinkst

is that methinks is it seems to me while methinkst is methinks.

As a contraction methinks

is it seems to me.

As a verb methinkst is

methinks.

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

methinkst
English

Verb
(head)
(archaic, or, humorous) methinks

* 1811 , The history of Clarissa Harlowe: in a series of letters , Volume 3 , J. Carpenter and William Miller, pg. 314:

If thou designest to be honest, methinkst thou sayst, Why should not Singleton's plot be over with thee'', as it is with her ''brother?

* 1857 , Alfred Elwes, trans. Mary Lafon, "Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende," Graham's illustrated magazine , publ. Watson, pg. 203:

*:"Dwarf," said the king, " God save thee, too ! for thou methinkst are honest. Speak without fear, and do thy message featly."

* 1907 , Nixon Waterman, "New England Apostrophes," The New England Magazine , Volume 36, pg. 346:

And yet, methinkst , as Ajax did of old

Defy the lightning, so thou, too, dost dare

To ask to have our tariff, so I'm told,

Revised somewhat.

See also
* methought (archaic) * meseems (obsolete) * methinkest