ma-in-law
colloq. abbrev. of mother-in-law.
| 1961 in Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1971 R. Rendell One Across v. 45 We've got some old tab coming here... Pal of my ma-in-law's. 1971 J. Tyndall Death in Lebanon x. 181 So Ma-in-law has been quick to take her revenge. 1974 People's Jrnl. (Inverness & Northern Counties ed.) 29 June 4/2 My ma-in-law used to say..‘Fierce is the light which beats upon the throne.’ |