daks
English
Etymology 1
From DAKS (“a trademark”), a brand of trousers originally made in the 1930s by Simpsons of Piccadilly; said to be short for Dad’s slacks.
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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.
- 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.
- 2004, Bryce Courtenay, Brother Fish, 2008, unnumbered page,
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
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