![]() Because it was the most common form of bread for bush workers in the nineteenth century, to earn your damper means to be worth your pay. This word is specific use of British damper meaning ‘something that takes the edge off the appetite’, and probably with some influence from damp down '(of a fire or furnace) to cover or fill it with small coal, ashes, or coke, so as to check combustion and prevent its going out, when not required for some time'. His family didn't know about it until he was dacked during a game this year.Ī simple kind of bread, traditionally unleavened and baked in the ashes of an outdoor fire. ![]() For a more detailed discussion of dak see our Word of the Month article from July 2009.ġ994 Age (Melbourne) 24 July: We played footy together, but his recognition was going on to play for Footscray I was the little fella so mine was getting dakked every pie night.Ģ007 Herald Sun (Melbourne) 4 October: The former Fitzroy and Brisbane footballer has 'Fitzroy RIP 1996' tattooed on his right buttock. The term is first recorded from the early 1990s but is probably much older than that. Dak derives from another Australian term daks meaning 'a pair of trousers'. To pull down or remove the trousers from (a person) as a joke or punishment. Thorne Battler: C'mon Mum, rattle yer dags - the old girls are hungry!Ģ010 Countryman (Perth) 11 February: Rattle yer dags, woolclassers, time's running out to re-register yourselves with the Australian Wool Exchange. The phrase is first recorded in the 1980s.ġ984 S. The word dag (originally daglock) was a British dialect word that was borrowed into mainstream Australian English in the 1870s. When a daggy sheep runs, the dried dags knock together to make a rattling sound. Dags are clumps of matted wool and dung which hang around a sheep’s rear end. Never ever wear a striped suit, a striped shirt and a striped tie together - just dreadful. your dress sense is nothing less than appalling. 'Well, most of them are dags', Julie laughs, 'but at least they're easier to talk to'.Ģ011 Australian Financial Review (Sydney) 11 July: Christian, while your budget may appear to be reasonable. is recorded from the 1960s.ġ983 Sydney Morning Herald 24 September: Has it helped them feel more relaxed with the boys in their PD group. Dag referring to an unfashionable person etc. The Australian senses of dag may have also been influenecd by the word wag (a habitual joker), and other Australian senses of dag referring to sheep (see rattle your dags below). Ultimately all these senses of dag are probably derived from the British dialect (especially in children's speech) sense of dag meaning a 'feat of skill', 'a daring feat among boys', and the phrase to have a dag at meaning 'to have a shot at'. These senses of dag derive from an earlier Australian sense of dag meaning 'a "character", someone eccentric but entertainingly so'. An unfashionable person a person lacking style or character a socially awkward adolescent, a 'nerd'.
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