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
- hermaphrodite brig
- hermaphroditic
- hermaphroditical
- hermaphroditism
- Hermaphroditus
- hermeneut
- hermeneute
- hermeneutic
- hermeneutical
- hermeneutically
- hermeneutics
- hermeneutist
- Hermes
- Hermes Trismegistus
- hermetic
- hermetically
- hermeticism
- hermit
- hermitage
- hermit crab
- Hermitian
- hermitic
- hermitism
- hermit-like
- hermit sheep