mou
Meanings
Noun
1. pliability, softness, mushiness (nominalized, poetic)
2. lungs, lights (of a slaughtered animal) sold as lesser quality meat for cats or other pets (butchering)
3. slack (chiefly partitively and climbing, of a rope)
4. something soft, pliable or mushy
5. a man lacking impetuousness and decision; a pansy, softy
6. a moderate (politics)
Examples4
donne moi du mou !
pay me out some slack!
sec ? - non, du mou !
do I take up the slack? - no, pay me some more!
l'escaladeur n'avait pas assez de mou pour le dévers
the mountain climber didn't have enough slack for the overhang
l’escaladeur n’avait pas assez de mou pour le dévers
the mountain climber didn't have enough slack for the overhang