See also: með, Meth., and meth-

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of methamphetamine.

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meth (countable and uncountable, plural meths)

  1. (informal) Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride.
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Etymology 2

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Clipping of methadone.

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meth (countable and uncountable, plural meths)

  1. (informal) Methadone.
    • 1998 November 14, Markus, “Re: METH”, in alt.recovery[1] (Usenet):
      Dunno why you want to try and make last any longer than it already does. Meth has to be the single most wicked shit I ever involved myself with. But as far as what it actually does, your best bet would be to trot down to the local library and look it up.

Etymology 3

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From meths or methylated spirits, as stereotypically drunk by tramps.

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meth (plural meths)

  1. (derogatory, Liverpool, Manchester) A tramp.

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Etymology 4

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From metheglin, from Welsh meddyglyn, from meddyg (medicinal) (from Latin medicus) + llyn (liquor) (cognate with Irish lionn and Gaelic leann).

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meth (countable and uncountable, plural meths)

  1. A spiced mead, originally from Wales.
    • 1678, John Worlidge, Vinetum Britannicum, or a Treatise of Cider, 3rd edit.:
      The Russians, Swedes, Danes, and those of Northern Inhabitants, exceed all the rest, having made the drinking of Brandy, Aqua Vitae, Hydromel, Beer, Mum, Meth, and other Liquors in great quantitites, so familiar to them, that they usually drink our countrymen to death.

Etymology 5

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Clipping of method, which see.

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meth (countable and uncountable, plural meths)

  1. (slang) Marijuana.

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Cornish

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Celtic *metom, possibly borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate.

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meth f (plural methow)

  1. failure
  2. shame, disgrace

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Celtic *maketi (to raise), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (long, to raise).

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meth m

  1. nurture, nourishing

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meth

  1. Alternative form of mede (mead (beverage))

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From Ottoman Turkish مدح (medh), from Arabic مَدْح (madḥ).

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meth (definite accusative methi, plural methler)

  1. praise

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Welsh

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Etymology

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Ultimately from *mettom, a geminate form of Proto-Celtic *metom. Cognate with Irish meath.[1]

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meth m or f (plural methion)

  1. failure, fault, defect
    Synonyms: methiant, pall, diffyg, bai, gwall, ffaeledd, cyfeiliornad
  2. cessation
    Synonym: darfod
  3. adversity, misfortune
    Synonyms: aflwydd, adfyd, anap

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Mutated forms of meth
radical soft nasal aspirate
meth feth unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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  1. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “meth”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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