merrymake

English

Etymology

From make merry.

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.

Noun

merrymake (plural merrymakes)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• make merry