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Dads and Daves

Dads and Daves is the plural of Dad and Dave.

Meaning of Dad and Dave

Noun

Dad and Dave (plural Dads and Daves)

  1. (Australia, colloquial, historical) Remote rural farmers resembling the characters in Steele Rudd's "Dad and Dave" stories, especially seen as unsophisticated.
    • In vain I looked for the types I sought—old slop clothes, wheat growing out of their ears, real old Dads and Daves.1936 October 10, The Mirror, Western Australia

Questions about Dads and Daves

What is Dads and Daves the plural of?
Dads and Daves is the plural of Dad and Dave.

Words near Dads and Daves in the dictionary

  1. Dadra and Nagar Haveli
  2. Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
  3. dadratted
  4. dadrock
  5. dads
  6. Dads and Daves
  7. dadship
  8. dadsonite
  9. dadsplain
  10. dadsplained
  11. dadsplaining

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Dads and Daves (page history and authors); Dad and Dave (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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