drack adj.
(Aus.) second-rate, inferior, unattractive.
Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 3 Oct. 1/2: He tried to sell me some scourah jewellery and schorumed about his drac stuff. I had to give him the giswhent. | ||
Aus. Lang. 127: Sope is an old larrikin word [...] A writer in 1907 describes it as ‘the direct antithesis of bonzer. ... It expresses all that is condemnable in anybody or anything.’ It is now obsolete. Drack and bodger are modern equivalents. | ||
Poor Man’s Orange 180: He was always stuck with drack types like Dolour Darcy. | ||
Argus (Melbourne) 18 Jan. 5/1: It was up to everyone to show the world it was not a drack town. | ||
Riverslake 94: It’s a football dance, not one of those drac turns they slap on for the locals. | ||
Advertiser (Adelaide) 21 Nov. 4/4: The girls say, ‘Mum, you look drack!’. | ||
Dinkum Aussie Dict. 22: Drack: Dowdy in one’s personal attire. | ||
Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 39/2: drac(k) awful or ugly, as in Dracula. | ||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. |
In compounds
(Aus.) an unattractive person of either sex.
Joyful Condemned 26: To him all girls were collectively ‘the brush’; some were ‘hot dishes’, and others ‘drak sorts’. | ||
Billy Borker Yarns Again 136: The worst service in the world. Drack sorts for hostesses, poor service, drunken pilots. | ||
Holy Smoke 79: She wasn’t a drack sort [...] She’s pretty good-lookin’. | ||
Aussie Swearers Guide 38: A drack sort often has a mind of her own, refuses to be segregated at parties, and complains bitterly when asked to [...] watch footie in the rain. | ||
Sydney Morning Herald 26 Sept. 9: Mr Hardy said he would put aside his memories [...] of meeting Raquel Welch (‘A drac sort – not nearly as good looking in the flesh as you would expect’) [GAW4]. | ||
‘Australia Decoded’ at Joyzine 🌐 drack sack/sort – slattern; unattractive person, especially a woman: e.g., What a drack sort his wife is! |