English Explanatory Dictionary

Dad and Dave

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

EN-AU ck1 Dad and Dave.ogg

Word forms

Dad and Dave 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).

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