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English
Etymology
From make merry.
Verb
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
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.
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