dakdak

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: dak‧dak

Verb

dakdak

  1. to fall or land on one's butt
  2. to drop something one is holding forcefully

Tagalog

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

dakdák (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜃ᜔ᜇᜃ᜔)

  1. (colloquial) speaking out of turn
    Synonyms: yakyak, abla, daldal, satsat
  2. (colloquial) person that speaks out of turn
    Synonyms: daldalero, satsatero

Etymology 2

Noun

dakdák (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜃ᜔ᜇᜃ᜔)

  1. act of pushing someone's head hard against something while holding it
  2. bumping; collision (of one's face against something hard)
    Synonym: salpok
  3. crowd gathered for illegal cockfighting
  4. act of driving in a sharp stake into the soil
    Synonyms: taktak, suksok, baon, tulos
  5. (sports, basketball) dunk
Derived terms

Further reading

  • dakdak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018