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slack

9 Kiribati words

• matantan
  • Bingham slack, looping as a rope.
  • Sabatier loose, slack, not taut (rope, string).
• matiketike
  • Bingham slack drawn, as a rope.
  • Sabatier loose, slack. mostly used in fig. idle, soft, loose.
• matana
  • Bingham slack as a rope.
• bato
  • Sabatier batobato. collapsed, flat, released, slack.
• mata n ei
  • Sabatier looking shaky, soft, limp, slack (as person half awake).
• manio
  • Sabatier mannei: limp, slack, flabby, fagged out, jaded, worn out.
• nimaoriori
  • Sabatier extremely flaccid, limp, slack, flabby, spineless, apathetic.
• kamanua
  • Bingham to relax, to slacken, to slack, to close as the fingers, to double as the arm.
• manu
  • Bingham closed as fingers, bent or drawn up as an arm or leg, slack, looping as a slack rope.