daks

English

Etymology 1

From DAKS, trademark for a brand of trousers originally made in the 1930s by Simpsons of Piccadilly; formed from the initials of Alexander Simpson and the first and last letters of the name of his business associate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

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Alternative forms

• dacks

Noun

1. (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.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

daks

1. plural of dak

Anagrams

• DASK, S.Dak.

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Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German dahs, from Old High German dahs, from Proto-Germanic *þahsuz (“badger”). Cognate with German Dachs, Dutch das.

Noun

daks m

1. (Sette Comuni) badger

   Dar daks jaaghet mòize un ghiiren.

   The badger hunts mice and dormice.

References

• “daks” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

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Tagalog

Etymology

Short for Cebuano dako.

Adjective

daks

1. well hung; having a large penis; well-endowed