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merrymake en · NOUN

Etymology

From make merry.

Meanings

1. (archaic, literary) Merry-making, celebration, festivity.
   • when he saw her toy, and gibe, and geare, / And passe the bonds of modest merimake, / Her dalliance he despisd, and follies did forsake. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
merrymakes	Number=Plur		lexicographic

merrymake en · VERB

Etymology

From make merry.

Meanings

1. (archaic, literary) To make merry, have fun, celebrate.
   • Drawing near, / Loud from the chambers of the bridge below, / Sounds of carousal came and song, / And unveiled women bade the advancing youth / Come merry-make with them. 1801, Robert Southey, “The Sixth Book”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume II, London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC, page 45:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
merrymaking	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
merrymakes	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
merrymade	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
merrymade	Tense=Past		lexicographic