methsn.

Brit.

/mɛθs/, U.S.

/mɛθs/

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: methylated spirits n. at methylated adj. 1.

Etymology: Shortened < methylated spirits n. at methylated adj. 1. Compare the slightly earlier (and less common) parallel formation meth n.¹Not recorded in North America.

colloquial.

Methylated spirits.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > alcohols > [noun] > alcohol compounds or mixtures > methylated spirit

methylated spirits1855

finish1875

industrial alcohol1880

methylated1912

meth1933

metho1933

meths1935

1935 H. Neville Sneak Thief on Road ii. 162 That's pure meths... They call it Blue Billy or jake, and it's known among all tramps and kip-houses and wherever men have empty lives.

1939 ‘N. Shute’ What happened to Corbetts? i. 18 A Primus stove..and paraffin and meths.

1973 M. Muggeridge Infernal Grove i. 71 Like alcoholics after taking the cure—never another drop; well, just a taste perhaps, and then, before you could say knife, back on the meths.

1984 B. Reid So Much Love xi. 203 Vagrants used to spill their meths down my wall when they fell asleep against my window.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

meths-burner n.

ΚΠ

1959 Listener 21 May 893/3 A lovely copper kettle with a meths-burner underneath.

C2.

meths-drinker n. a person who is addicted to alcohol and drinks this (esp. by reason of extreme poverty) in the form of methylated spirits (cf. metho n.¹ 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > alcoholic or habitual drinker > one addicted to specific drink

wino1915

smoke-hound1932

metho1933

pink-eye1945

rubby-dub1945

rubby1950

plonko1963

meths-drinker1968

1968 Daily Tel. 12 Nov. 16/2 Young people who work at clearing slag heaps, helping meths-drinkers or cleaning canals to make them navigable.

1979 T. Keneally Passenger xiii. 128 Sal and I..slept the tainted sleep of meths drinkers.

1983 B. Inglis & R. West Alternative Health Guide 308 It will be different for someone who has become hooked on drugs in the pursuit of a Huxley-style experience, than for a meths-drinker in ‘Skid Row’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	meths
释义	methsn. Brit. /mɛθs/, U.S. /mɛθs/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: methylated spirits n. at methylated adj. 1. Etymology: Shortened < methylated spirits n. at methylated adj. 1. Compare the slightly earlier (and less common) parallel formation meth n.¹Not recorded in North America. colloquial. Methylated spirits. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > alcohols > [noun] > alcohol compounds or mixtures > methylated spirit methylated spirits1855 finish1875 industrial alcohol1880 methylated1912 meth1933 metho1933 meths1935 1935 H. Neville Sneak Thief on Road ii. 162 That's pure meths... They call it Blue Billy or jake, and it's known among all tramps and kip-houses and wherever men have empty lives. 1939 ‘N. Shute’ What happened to Corbetts? i. 18 A Primus stove..and paraffin and meths. 1973 M. Muggeridge Infernal Grove i. 71 Like alcoholics after taking the cure—never another drop; well, just a taste perhaps, and then, before you could say knife, back on the meths. 1984 B. Reid So Much Love xi. 203 Vagrants used to spill their meths down my wall when they fell asleep against my window. Compounds C1. General attributive. meths-burner n. ΚΠ 1959 Listener 21 May 893/3 A lovely copper kettle with a meths-burner underneath. C2. meths-drinker n. a person who is addicted to alcohol and drinks this (esp. by reason of extreme poverty) in the form of methylated spirits (cf. metho n.¹ 2). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > alcoholic or habitual drinker > one addicted to specific drink wino1915 smoke-hound1932 metho1933 pink-eye1945 rubby-dub1945 rubby1950 plonko1963 meths-drinker1968 1968 Daily Tel. 12 Nov. 16/2 Young people who work at clearing slag heaps, helping meths-drinkers or cleaning canals to make them navigable. 1979 T. Keneally Passenger xiii. 128 Sal and I..slept the tainted sleep of meths drinkers. 1983 B. Inglis & R. West Alternative Health Guide 308 It will be different for someone who has become hooked on drugs in the pursuit of a Huxley-style experience, than for a meths-drinker in ‘Skid Row’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1935
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