Dhaks vs Daks - What's the difference?
dhaks | daks |
(Australian, New Zealand, informal) Trousers or underwear.
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As nouns the difference between dhaks and daks
is that dhaks is while daks is or daks can be (australian|new zealand|informal) trousers or underwear.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From , a brand of trousers originally made in the 1930s by ''; said to be short for ''Dad?s slacks .Alternative forms
* dacksNoun
(en-plural noun)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.
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- But the pain?s still there, so I begin to drop my daks to investigate the territory.
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- “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 ?”
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- They were still there the next morning, flapping in the breeze. Filthy, grease stained pair of daks . The crotch half rotted away.