めやも

particle

might it be ... No, I guess it's not

Archaic sentence-final particle expressing irony and admiration. Used to rhetorically suggest something while implying it is not the case.

• 古こ典てんの「めやも」は、反はん語ごと感かん嘆たんを含ふくむ文ぶん末まつに現あらわれる。

  The classical めやも appears at the end of sentences with irony and admiration.