different between daks vs dags

English

Etymology 1

From DAKS, trademark for a brand of trousers originally made in the 1930s by Simpsons of Piccadilly; formed from the initials of Alexander Simpson and the first and last letters of the name of his business associate Dudley Beck.

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

• dacks

Noun

daks pl (plural only)

1. (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.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

daks

1. plural of dak

Anagrams

• DASK, S.Dak.

Bikol Central

Etymology

Shortened form of dakula (“big”)

Adjective

daks

1. well hung; having a large penis; well-endowed

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German dahs, from Old High German dahs, from Proto-West Germanic *þahs, from Proto-Germanic *þahsuz (“badger”). Cognate with German Dachs, Dutch das.

Noun

daks m

1. (Sette Comuni) badger

References

• “daks” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

daks m (definite singular daksen, indefinite plural dakser, definite plural daksene)

1. Alternative spelling of dachs

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

daks m (definite singular daksen, indefinite plural daksar, definite plural daksane)

1. Alternative spelling of dachs

Tagalog

Etymology

Short for Cebuano dako.

Adjective

daks

1. well hung; having a large penis; well-endowed

English

Noun

dags

1. plural of dag

Verb

dags

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dag

Anagrams

• S.D. Ga., gads

Danish

Noun

dags c

1. indefinite genitive singular of dag

Gothic

Romanization

dags

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Noun

dags m

1. indefinite genitive singular of dagur

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Swedish dags, genitive of dag (“day”).

Pronunciation

• Homophone: dachs

Adverb

dags

1. (attributive) time (the appropriate particular moment or hour for something.)

Synonyms

• på tide

Old Prussian

Noun

dags

1. summer

See also

• dagis

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (noun) /d???s/, (adverb) /daks/

Noun

dags

1. indefinite genitive singular of dag

Adverb

dags (not comparable)

1. time (to do something)

Related terms

• läggdags
• matdags
• mjölkdags
• sängdags

References

• dags in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• dags in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• sagd