Meanings
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verb
archaic, poetic, or humorous, impersonal: it seems to me; now usually encountered in the forms methinks and methought
The road ahead, methink, grows darker by the hour.
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Etymology
From Old English me thyncan 'to seem to me,' combining the dative pronoun me with thyncan 'to seem,' a verb historically distinct from thencan 'to think.' The construction became a single impersonal verb; its surviving present and past forms are methinks and methought.