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merrimake

merrimake is the alternative form of merrymake.

Meaning of merrymake

Verb

merrymake (third-person singular simple present merrymakes, present participle merrymaking, simple past and past participle merrymade)

  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

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Forms of merrimake

third-person singular presentmerrimakes
present participlemerrimaking
past participlemerrimade
pastmerrimade

Questions about merrimake

What is merrimake the alternative form of?
Merrimake is the alternative form of merrymake.

Words near merrimake in the dictionary

  1. merrilly
  2. merrily
  3. Merrimac
  4. Merrimack
  5. Merrimack County
  6. merrimake
  7. merrimakes
  8. merrimaking
  9. Merriman
  10. merriment
  11. merriments

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Adapted from Wiktionary: merrimake (page history and authors); merrymake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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