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
- be above (or beyond) one's pay grade
- be a box of birds
- beach
- beach ball
- beach book
- Beach Boys
- beach break
- beach buggy
- beach bum
- beach bunny
- beachcomber
- beached
- beach flea
- beachfront
- beachgoer
- beach grass
- beachhead
- beach hut
- beachiness
- beach inspector
- Beach-la-mar
- beach plum
- beach resort
- beachside
- beach towel