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takkie

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans tekkie (“athletic shoe”).

Pronunciation

  • (General South African) enPR: /t?k?/

Noun

takkie (plural takkies)

  1. (South Africa, chiefly in the plural) An athletic shoe, a trainer, a sneaker.
    • 1948, Tom Macdonald, Jan Hofmeyr: heir to Smuts,[1] 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, 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, 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, page 35:
      […] stood on it with one takkie that had no shoelace.

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sneakers

English

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: snea?kers

Noun

sneakers

  1. plural of sneaker

Anagrams

  • Keresans

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