matie

See also: Matie

English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

mattie, matty

Noun

matie (plural maties)

(Britain and Scotland) A fat herring with undeveloped roe.

Related terms

maatje

Etymology 2

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Matei, a mite

Tahitian

Etymology

(adjective) From abbreviation of nīnamu matie.

Noun

matie

grass

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.

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