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Danks vs Daks - What's the difference?

danks | daks |

As nouns the difference between danks and daks

is that danks is while daks is or daks can be (australian|new zealand|informal) trousers or underwear.

As a verb danks

is (dank).

danks

English

Verb

(head)
  • (dank)

    • Noun

    (head)

    • dank

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Moisture; humidity; water.
  • A small silver coin formerly used in Persia.

    • Adjective

    (er)
  • dark, damp and humid.
    • The dank cave was chilly and spooky.
  • * Milton
    • Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire.
  • * Trench
    • Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground.
  • (figuratively) highly potent
    • That was very dank marijuana.

    Derived terms

    * dankly * dankness

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    daks

    English

    Etymology 1

    Derived from dak.

    Noun

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    From , a brand of trousers originally made in the 1930s by ''; said to be short for ''Dad?s slacks .

    Alternative forms

    * dacks

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • (Australian, New Zealand, informal) Trousers or underwear.
  • * 2004 , , 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 , , 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.

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