takkieとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (South Africa) enPR: /tăkē/

名詞

takkie (複数形 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 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.