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Etymology

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Apparently a neologistic pseudoarchaism, designed to resemble methinks or meseems, which are genuinely archaic.

Contraction

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mehopes

  1. (nonstandard) I hope.
    • 1860?, in Godey's Magazine, volumes 60-61, page 424:
      "Gentle maiden, though a captive, mehopes thou hast not found this confinement irksome, [] "
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