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▪ I. merry-make, n. arch.|ˈmɛrɪmeɪk|
[app. f. vbl. phr. make merry, with inversion as in the later merry-making.]
= merry-making.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Nov. 9 Now nis the time of merimake. a1586Satir. Poems Reform. xxxvii. 51 Gif ȝe lyk musik, mirthe, or myrrie mak. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. i. xxviii, With fearless merry-make and piping. 1638–48G. Daniel Eclog iii. 29 The Simple Merrie-make of older Swains Was Innocent. 1822W. Tennant Thane of Fife vi. xlviii, The din of merry-make and boast! 1833Longfellow Outre-Mer Prose Wks. 1886 I. 52 The rural sports and merrimakes of the village. 1844Mrs. Browning Drama of Exile Poems 1850 I. 5 We'll have feasts And funerals also, merrymakes and wars. 1893K. L. Bates Eng. Relig. Drama 23 England was wonted to take her merry-makes as a gift from the hand of Religion.
▪ II. ˈmerry-make, v. rare.
[Formed as prec.]
intr. To make merry; to be festive.
1714Gay Sheph. Week Tues. 50 Whilom with thee 'twas Marian's dear delight To moil all day and merry-make at night. 1853–8Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1879) I. 240 Dancing and otherwise merrymaking. 1859FitzGerald tr. Omar xxxv, I think the Vessel, that with fugitive Articulation answer'd, once did live, And merry-make. 1894Du Maurier Trilby I. 220 Ye young who pawn each other's watches, and merrymake together on the proceeds. |