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
- Romanowsky-stained
- Roman peace
- Roman pearl
- roman policier
- Roman punch
- Roman Question
- Roman Republic
- Roman ring
- Roman road
- Roman sandal
- Roman satin
- Roman scarf
- Roman school
- Romans, Epistle to the
- Romansh
- Roman shade
- Roman snail
- romanso
- Roman steelyard
- Roman string
- romantic
- romantical
- romanticalism
- romanticality
- romantically