Methinks

//miˈθiŋks// contraction

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Definitions

Contraction
  1. 1
    It seems to me. archaic, contraction, humorous, sometimes

    "methinks the truth should live from age to age,"

Example

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"Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green."

Etymology

From Middle English me thinketh from Old English mē þynceþ (from þyncan (“to seem”)); equivalent to me (indirect object pronoun, as in “show me it”) + think (“to seem”). Compare synonymous Flemish me dunkt, German mir/mich dünkt, Old Norse mér þykkir (Icelandic mér þykir). Compare meseems.

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methinks the lady doth protest too much

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