different between daks vs daps

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From DAKS, trademark for a brand of trousers originally made in the 1930s by Simpsons of Piccadilly; formed from the initials of Alexander Simpson and the first and last letters of the name of his business associate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

daps

1. plural of dap

Verb

daps

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

Anagrams

• APDS, ASPD, PDAs, SPAD, SaPD, pads, spad

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *déh?ps (“portion, sacrificial meal”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ?????? (dapán?, “expenditure”), ????? (dápt?, “I devour”), Old Armenian ???? (tawn, “feast”), Old Norse tafn (“sacrifice”). Akin to damnum (“loss, expense”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /daps/, [d?äps?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /daps/, [d??ps]

Noun

daps f (genitive dapis); third declension

1. A sacrificial or solemn feast, religious banquet.
2. A meal, banquet, feast.

Declension

Note that the nominative is sometimes written as dapis and that the genitive plural and the dative singular do not occur.Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (banquet, feast): conv?vium, dominium, fest?vit?s

Related terms

• dapsil?
• daps?lis
• dapsilis
• dapsiliter
• dapaticus
• dapatic?
• dap?lis

Descendants

• English: dapifer

References

• daps in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• daps in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• daps in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 161