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
- righto
- right of abode
- right of appearance
- right-of-centre
- right of common
- right off the bat
- right of primogeniture
- right of search
- right of way
- right-of-way man
- right on
- right out of the box
- right prismatic
- right-reading
- Right Reverend
- right-sided
- right side tool
- rights issue
- rightsize
- right smart
- rights of man
- right sphere
- right stuff
- right-thinker
- right-thinking