merrymake

From make merry.

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.

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.

• make merry