poy plus poy moins
Middle French edit
Adverb edit
- (idiomatic) more or less; roughly; approximately
- 1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua:
- Mais sus tout avoit la queue horrible, car elle estoit, poy plus poy moins, grosse comme la pile Sainct Mars
- But underneath everything, she [the mare] had a horrible tail, for it was, more or less, as big as […]