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Takkie - What does it mean?

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takkie

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (South African English, chiefly, in the plural) An athletic shoe, a trainer, a sneaker.
  • * 1948 , Tom Macdonald, Jan Hofmeyr: heir to Smuts , Hurst & Blackett, page 119:
    • One day in comes Jannie Hofmeyr to my shop, and he's wanting a pair of takkies to play tennis you know, and William, my son, he goes and serves him.
  • * 1986 , Peter Abbott and Philip Botham, Modern African Wars (1): Rhodesia 1965–80 , Osprey Publishing, ISBN 978-0-85045-728-5, page 43:
    • Net face veils often replaced the orthodox headgear, and ‘takkies ’ (canvas boots) or ‘fellies’ (veldshoen(sic)) the regulation combat boots.
  • * 2001 , Gail Evans, Time Trials , iUniverse, ISBN 978-0-59515-564-4, page 11:
    • she kept getting her foot stuck in it until her right takkie was squishing on the kitchen floor.
  • * 2006 , Byron Loker, New Swell , iBhuku.com, ISBN 978-1-77013-054-8, page 35:
    • stood on it with one takkie that had no shoelace.

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