Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

takkie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: takkie
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An athletic shoe, a trainer, a sneaker.

Example Sentences

"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."
"Net face veils often replaced the orthodox headgear, and ‘takkies’ (canvas boots) or ‘fellies’ (veldshoen^([sic])) the regulation combat boots."
"[…]she kept getting her foot stuck in it until her right takkie was squishing on the kitchen floor."
"[…]stood on it with one takkie that had no shoelace."

Etymology

From Afrikaans tekkie (“athletic shoe”).

Inflected Forms

takkies (plural)

Questions

What does takkie mean?: An athletic shoe, a trainer, a sneaker.
Where does takkie come from?: From Afrikaans tekkie (“athletic shoe”).

How to pronounce takkie

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