Takkie vs Tackie - What's the difference?
takkie | tackie |
(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:
* 1986 , Peter Abbott and Philip Botham, Modern African Wars (1): Rhodesia 1965–80 , Osprey Publishing, ISBN 978-0-85045-728-5,
* 2001 , Gail Evans, Time Trials , iUniverse, ISBN 978-0-59515-564-4,
* 2006 , Byron Loker, New Swell , iBhuku.com, ISBN 978-1-77013-054-8,
(South African) A canvas shoe with a rubber sole.
(Ireland, Limerick) Another word for trainers or runners.
(South African slang) A car-tyre or any vehicle’s tyre.
* The hot rod had fat tackies .
As nouns the difference between takkie and tackie
is that takkie is an athletic shoe, a trainer, a sneaker while tackie is (South African) A canvas shoe with a rubber sole.takkie
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
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- Net face veils often replaced the orthodox headgear, and ‘takkies ’ (canvas boots) or ‘fellies’ (veldshoen(sic)) the regulation combat boots.
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- she kept getting her foot stuck in it until her right takkie was squishing on the kitchen floor.
page 35:
- stood on it with one takkie that had no shoelace.