Takkie

Pronunciation

• South Africa enPR: /tăkÄ“/

Origin

From Afrikaans tekkie ("athletic shoe").

Full definition of takkie

Noun

1. (South African English, chiefly in the plural) An athletic shoe, a trainer, a sneaker.
• 1948, Tom Macdonald, Jan Hofmeyr: heir to Smuts, 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) 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.