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Meaning of Dad and Dave | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

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

Australia, colloquial, historical

Examples

“In vain I looked for the types I sought—old slop clothes, wheat growing out of their ears, real old Dads and Daves.”
“The earlier lure for the pioneering of land has gone, and I think so far as Australians and Britishers are concerned there are not very many people aspiring to be "Dads" and "Daves".”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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