mattery
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mattery (comparative more mattery, superlative most mattery)
- pussy, purulent (containing or secreting pus)
- (obsolete) Full of substance or matter; important.
- 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Away with your mattery sentences, Momus; they are too grave and wise for this meeting