matoor

English

Adjective

matoor (comparative more matoor, superlative most matoor)

1. Pronunciation spelling of mature.
   • [1982, Julian Barnes, Before She Met Me, London: Pan Books, published 1983, →ISBN, page 82:

     So, I were jest giving her the old couple-of-days' routine, waiting for the sherry wine to matoor in the caysk, so to speak, when she comes right up to me and says, "How's about finding a holster for your gun, cowboy?" So that's what the chicks are like over here, Buck, I says to myself.

     A verbal use.]

   • 2012 July 2, Dan Amira, “Former Conservative Child-Pundit Jonathan Krohn Is Now a Walking Liberal Stereotype”, in Intelligencer‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:

     But he's 17 now — older, wiser, more matoor — and tells Politico that he would vote for President Obama this year if he were old enough, his favorite show is the Daily Show, he supports gay marriage and Obamacare, and he's starting at NYU in the fall, where he'll study philosophy and filmmaking. Ha, wow.

   • 2015, Robert Christgau, Going Into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: Dey St., →ISBN, page 197:

     But for Esquire's trend-mad, jazz-digging editor Harold Hayes, the prevailing disillusion was more fun than a second martini—matoor values reasserting themselves.

Anagrams

• Maroot

Amis

Verb

matoor

1. to catch up