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• dacks

発音

名詞

daks pl (plural only)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) Trousers or underwear.
   • 2004, Bryce Courtenay, Brother Fish, published 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.

派生語

• trackie daks
• underdaks

参照

• "Our History" on the DAKS website.

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

名詞

daks

1. plural of dak

アナグラム

• DASK, S.Dak.