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metho

metho

English

Noun

metho (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, colloquial) Methylated spirits.
    • 1985, Living Australia, photograph caption, Dangerous Australians: The Complete Guide to Australia's Most Deadly Creatures, page 61,
      Ben Cropp, aided by his wife Lynn, tests the effectiveness of metho and vinegar against box jellyfish stings (above); see Ben′s foreword for details of the experiment.
    • 1988, Kate Jennings, Cold Water, Save Me, Joe Louis, reprinted 2010, Trouble: Evolution of a Radical, Selected Writings 1970-2010, page 78,
      We thought an alcoholic was a low life, someone on metho, or a benighted person who drank a bottle of gin before breakfast. Not us.
    • 1996, Curriculum Corporation (Australia), From Igloos to Yurts: Years 4-7, page 23,
      Assist students to design and construct models of hot-air balloons ranging from those using shopping bags and hair dryers, to those using tissue paper and metho burners, depending on the resources available.

Welsh

Pronunciation

Verb

metho

  1. (literary) third-person singular subjunctive of methu

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
metho fetho unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.