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mattery

mattery adjective: pussy, purulent (containing or secreting pus).

Adjective

mattery (comparative more mattery, superlative most mattery)

  1. pussy, purulent (containing or secreting pus)
  2. (obsolete) Full of substance or matter; important.
    • Away with your mattery sentences, Momus; they are too grave and wise for this meeting1601, 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...

Forms of mattery

comparativemore mattery
superlativemost mattery

Origin of mattery

From matter + -y.

Questions about mattery

What does mattery mean?
Mattery means pussy, purulent (containing or secreting pus).
What part of speech is mattery?
Mattery is an adjective.

Words near mattery in the dictionary

  1. matters of record
  2. mattersome
  3. Matterson
  4. matterwave
  5. matterwaves
  6. mattery
  7. mattes
  8. Matteses
  9. Matteson
  10. Mattesons
  11. Matteucci

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