matie
See also: Matie
English
Alternative forms
- mattie, matty
Noun
matie (plural maties)
- (Britain and Scotland) A fat herring with undeveloped roe.
Related terms
- maatje
Noun
matie (plural maties)
- Alternative spelling of matey
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for matie in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Amite, MEATI, Matei, a mite
Tahitian
Etymology
(adjective) From abbreviation of nīnamu matie.
Noun
matie
- grass
Derived terms
Derived terms
- matie māʻohi
- matie taravao
- matie tātahi
- tāpu matie
Adjective
matie
- green
Synonyms
- nīnamu matie
References
- Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
- “matie” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.