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
- Richie, Lionel
- richish
- rich kid
- Richland
- Richler, Mordecai
- richling
- richly
- rich man
- Richmond
- Richmond birdwing
- richness
- rich rhyme
- rich-rich
- rich-soil
- richterite
- Richter magnitude
- Richter scale
- Richter's hernia
- rich text
- Rich Text Format
- Richthofen, Manfred
- richweed
- ricin
- ricinelaidate
- ricinelaidic acid