merrymake
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From make merry.
Verb
[edit]merrymake (third-person singular simple present merrymakes, present participle merrymaking, simple past and past participle merrymade)
- (archaic, literary) To make merry, have fun, celebrate.
Noun
[edit]merrymake (plural merrymakes)
- (archaic, literary) Merry-making, celebration, festivity.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- when he saw her toy, and gibe, and geare, / And passe the bonds of modest merimake, / Her dalliance he despisd, and follies did forsake.