Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dad and dave

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English

Syllables: dad and -dave
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Remote rural farmers resembling the characters in Steele Rudd's "Dad and Dave" stories, especially seen as unsophisticated.

Australian usage; Colloquial

Example Sentences

"In vain I looked for the types I sought—old slop clothes, wheat growing out of their ears, real old Dads and Daves."
"The earlier lure for the pioneering of land has gone, and I think so far as Australians and Britishers are concerned there are not very many people aspiring to be "Dads" and "Daves"."

Etymology

From dad + and + Dave, after the names of the central characters in a series of short stories by Australian author Steele Rudd (1868–1935).

Usage

Inflected Forms

Dads and Daves (plural)

Questions

What does dad and dave mean?: Remote rural farmers resembling the characters in Steele Rudd's "Dad and Dave" stories, especially seen as unsophisticated.
Where does dad and dave come from?: From dad + and + Dave, after the names of the central characters in a series of short stories by Australian author Steele Rudd (1868–1935).

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