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Metho vs Methy - What's the difference?

metho | methy |

As nouns the difference between metho and methy

is that metho is methylated spirits while methy is the burbot.

metho

English

Noun

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  • (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 , , 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.
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    methy

    English

    Noun

  • (US, Canada, dated) The burbot.
  • * 1824 , John Franklin, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea , volume 1, page 144:
  • The occow', or river perch, termed also horn-fish, piccarel, or dorĂ©, is common, but is not so much esteemed as the attihhawmeg. It attains the length of twenty inches in these lakes. The methy is another common fish; it is the ''gadus lota , or burbot, of Europe.
  • * 1836 , Richard King, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Artic Ocean , volume 1, page 53:
  • In addition to the sturgeon, the fishery occasionally yields the white-fish, pike, various kinds of trout, the methy , and several sucking-carp.
  • * 1873 , Anual Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, for the year ending the 30th June, 1872 , page 191:
  • Our Loche or Methy is not a fashionable fish,