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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(South Africa, chiefly in the plural) An athletic shoe, a trainer, a sneaker..
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.
Use takkie when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Takkie means (South Africa, chiefly in the plural) An athletic shoe, a trainer, a sneaker..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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