meth

• IPA^(key): /mɛθ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛθ

Clipping of methamphetamine.

meth (countable and uncountable, plural meths)

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

• tweaker

Clipping of methadone.

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.

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

• meff

meth (plural meths)

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

• wino

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

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.

Clipping of method, which see.

meth (countable and uncountable, plural meths)

1. (slang) Marijuana.

• them, TEHM, MHET, tehm

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

meth f (plural methow)

1. failure
2. shame, disgrace

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

meth m

1. nurture, nourishing

meth

1. alternative form of mede (“mead (beverage)”)

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

• IPA^(key): /meːθ/

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

• ar feth (“perished, ruined”)
  • mynd ar feth (“to come to ruin, to perish”)
• di-feth (“unfailing, unerring”)
• heb feth (“without failing, unceasing(ly)”)
• methu (“to fail”)