mater
/ˈmeɪtə
/noun British informal, dated
Mother: the mater has kept on the house in London...
- We visited once, in the 1980s, and I remember being fairly gobsmacked that my mater grew up in such a place.
- Doubtless mater and pater sent this horny-handed son of toil to the local comp followed by the polytechnic.
- Note that the sender to bed is not named: it could just as easily be a paternal figure as the whimsical mater.
Origin
Latin.
Rhymes
- feasible
- feasibly
- feast
- feast day
- feaster
- Feast of Dedication
- Feast of Tabernacles
- Feast of Weeks
- feast one's eyes on
- feast or famine
- feat
- feather
- featherback
- feather bed
- feather boa
- feather-brain
- feather-brained
- feather cut
- feather duster
- feather duster worm
- feathered
- feathered friend
- feather edge
- feather foot
- feather-headed