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Methinks is a alternative form of mythinks.


Mythinks is often a misspelling of methinks.


Mythinks has no English definition.

As a contraction methinks is

it seems to me.

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