daks

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From DAKS, trademark for a brand of trousers originally made in the 1930s by Simpsons of Piccadilly; formed from the initials of Alexander Simpson and the first and last letters of the name of his business associate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

Alternative forms

dacks

Pronunciation

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Noun

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, 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, page 14:
  They were still there the next morning, flapping in the breeze. Filthy, grease stained pair of daks. The crotch half rotted away.

Derived terms

trackie daks

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

daks

plural of dak

Anagrams

DASK, S.Dak.

Bikol Central

Etymology

Shortened form of dakula (“big”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /daks/

Adjective

daks

(gay slang, vulgar) well hung; having a large penis; well-endowed

Cimbrian

Etymology

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

Noun

daks m

(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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

daks m (definite singular daksen, indefinite plural dakser, definite plural daksene)

Alternative spelling of dachs

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

daks m (definite singular daksen, indefinite plural daksar, definite plural daksane)

Alternative spelling of dachs

Tagalog

Etymology

From a clipping of Cebuano dako (“big”) +‎ -s.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdaks/, [ˈdaks]

Adjective

daks

(slang, vulgar) having a large penis; well-endowed
Synonym: (slang) dakota