methink

Meanings

1. 1
   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.

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.

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