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Methy vs Mothy - What's the difference?

methy | mothy |

As a noun methy

is the burbot.

As an adjective mothy is

infested with moths.

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,

    mothy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • infested with moths
  • moth-eaten