merrymake

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verb

To make merry, have fun, celebrate.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person merrymakes · participle present merrymaking · participle past merrymade · past merrymade

  1. archaicliteraryTo 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
nounmerrymake (plural merrymakes)

plural merrymakes

  1. archaicliteraryMerry-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

Origin

From make merry.

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merrymake. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/merrymake

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“merrymake.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/merrymake. Accessed November 2, 2026.

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