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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From DAKS, trademark for a brand of trousers originally made in the 1930s by Simpsons of Piccadilly; formed from the initials of Alexander Simpson and the first and last letters of the name of his business associate Dudley Beck.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (AU) (file)
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Noun[edit]
daks pl (plural only)
- (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Trousers or underwear.
- 2004, Bryce Courtenay, Brother Fish, 2008, unnumbered page,
- The usual stuff – sports jacket, a couple of pairs of daks, one brown and one grey, three pairs of socks, though I only had need for one sock in the meantime, two white shirts and a decent pair of shoes, though again, only one shoe being useful in my present predicament.
- 2008, Dave Sabben, The Scorpion Dance, Denny Neave, Soldiers' Tale: A Collection of True Stories from Aussie Soldiers, page 144,
- But the pain′s still there, so I begin to drop my daks to investigate the territory.
- 2010, Robin Easton, Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest[1], page 43:
- “Look, I'll pull the bloody leeches off you. Okay? They won't hurt you. They′s only trying to suck your bloody blood. Why waste a pair of clean dacks?”
- 2011, Rory Barnes, Space Junk[2], page 14:
- They were still there the next morning, flapping in the breeze. Filthy, grease stained pair of daks. The crotch half rotted away.
- 2004, Bryce Courtenay, Brother Fish, 2008, unnumbered page,
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun[edit]
daks
Anagrams[edit]
Tagalog[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
daks
- well hung; having a large penis; well-endowed
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