adidas

See also: Adidas

English

Etymology

Genericized trademark from the German company name, Adidas. The sense is most likely due to the association made with chicken feet and Adidas shoes. Compare Cebuano adidas and Tagalog adidas.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

adidas (uncountable)

1. (Philippines, informal) chicken feet, skewered and grilled, sold as street food
   • 2023 November 20, Andrej Rossi, Philippines Travel Guide, via tolino media, →ISBN:

     Andrej Rossi. Adidas : Grilled chicken feet skewers , marinated and cooked to perfection . Tapsilog : A budget - friendly meal consisting of tapa ( marinated beef ) , sinangag ( garlic fried rice ) , and itlog ( fried egg ) . Balut : A […]

   • 2021 February 15, Mary Anne Alabanza Akers, Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines: A Retrospective on Women Street Vendors and their Spaces, Routledge, →ISBN:

     ... Adidas barbecue (chicken feet), roasted peanuts, boiled or roasted corn on the cob, balut (boiled duck egg), sago gulaman (tapioca pearls), fish balls, and fresh fruit and vegetables. A risk associated with street foods is the […]

   • 2018 November 13, Nicole Ponseca, Miguel Trinidad, I Am a Filipino: And This Is How We Cook, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     ... given special or funny names in the 1980s, like Betamax (chicken-blood cake), Walkman (grilled pork ears), Adidas (chicken feet), and pope's nose (chicken butts). PRITONG DILIS Fried Anchovies with Spicy Rémoulade THIS DISH IS.

   • 2017 November 15, Edgie Polistico, Philippine Food, Cooking, & Dining Dictionary, Anvil Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

     ... Adidas) 1. [n.] chicken feet barbecue; the chicken feet are washed clean with toe nails cut off, parboiled, then marinated in barbecue marinade, skewered in bamboo barbecue stick, and then grilled on charcoal embers. 2. [n.] chicken […]

   • 2016 April 13, Patricia Haseltine, Sheng-mei Ma, Doing English in Asia: Global Literature and Culture, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 44:

     ... adidas for grilled chicken feet, and walkman for barbecued pig ears. The word “trapo” is used to describe ... Philippines and became a standing joke. While most Filipinos would criticize her grammar, this writer would think that this is […]

   • 2015 December 22, Steven Raichlen, Planet Barbecue!: 309 Recipes, 60 Countries, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     309 Recipes, 60 Countries Steven Raichlen. PLANET BARBECUE. The. Philippines: Asian. Grill. Secrets. Revealed. I often say ... Adidas” (grilled chicken feet) and “Walkman” (grilled pig ears). (For a full guide to Filipino street food, see […]

   • 2014 October 1, Simon Foster, Kiki Deere, The Rough Guide to the Philippines, Penguin, →ISBN:

     ... adidas arrozcaldo SNACKS (MERIENDA) AND STREET FOOD DESSERTS rice porridge with chicken balut raw, halfformed duck ... grilled chicken or pig's intestines served with a cup of vinegar for dipping steamed cornonthecob pugo hardboiled […]

   • 2013 October 10, David Dalton, Stephen Keeling, The Rough Guide to the Philippines, Rough Guides UK, →ISBN:

     Highlights include deep-fried fishballs and squidballs (mashed fish or squid blended with wheat flour), grilled pig intestines and adidas – chicken's feet, named after the sports-shoe manufacturer. Prices start from a few pesos a stick.

   • 2013 April 23, Marvin Gapultos, Adobo Road Cookbook: A Filipino Food Journey, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN:

     ... Philippines, street vendors can be found grilling marinated chicken feet that are playfully nicknamed “adidas” (the ... grilled Filipino-style of chicken feet is delectably chewy. My interpretation of this popular Filipino street food is […]

   • 2012 July 10, Miki Garcia, Filipino Cookbook: 85 Homestyle Recipes to Delight Your Family and Friends, Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN:

     ... Philippines providing their owners with a fresh eggs and meat. Like the pig, no part of the chicken, or manok, goes to waste ... grilled chicken heads (Filipinos nickname this street food the “helmet”), grilled chicken feet (called “adidas […]

   • 2012 January 16, Jonathan Deutsch, Natalya Murakhver, They Eat That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Weird and Exotic Food from around the World, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:

     ... grill and sell them as tasty two - bite snacks . Mature chickens provide even more fodder for strolling munchers . Grilled chicken heads , known as helmets , are extremely popular as are Adidas , chicken feet which have had the nails […]

   • 2007, Richard Hosking, Eggs in Cookery: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery 2006, Oxford Symposium, →ISBN:

     ... grilled bananas, one can find barbecued chicken feet, nicknamed 'Adidas,' chicken wings called 'PAL' (Philippine Airlines), chicken intestines called 'IUD' for its appearance, pig's ears that are known as 'walkman' and the combs on […]

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English adidas, a genericized trademark of the German company name Adidas, after its founder Adolf “Adi” Dassler. The sense is most likely due to the association made with chicken feet and Adidas shoes.

Noun

adidas

1. (informal) adidas (food)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Adidas. Genericized trademark. First attested in 1969.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈdi.das/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -idas
• Syllabification: a‧di‧das

Noun

adidas m inan

1. (informal) sneaker (leisure shoe, often worn for sports; trainer)

Declension

Declension of adidas

	singular	plural
nominative	adidas	adidasy
genitive	adidasa	adidasów
dative	adidasowi	adidasom
accusative	adidasa	adidasy
instrumental	adidasem	adidasami
locative	adidasie	adidasach
vocative	adidasie	adidasy

Further reading

• adidas in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• adidas in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• adidas in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Adidas, a trademark.

Noun

adidas m (plural adidași)

1. sneaker, trainer

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	adidas	adidasul		adidași	adidașii
genitive-dative	adidas	adidasului		adidași	adidașilor
vocative	adidasule			adidașilor

Tagalog

Etymology

Genericized trademark from English Adidas, from the German company name Adidas, after its founder Adolf “Adi” Dassler. The sense “chicken feet” is most likely due to the resemblance with the 1970s Adidas striped trefoil logo, now used for Adidas Originals.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈdidas/ [ʔɐˈd̪iː.d̪ɐs]
• Rhymes: -idas
• Syllabification: a‧di‧das

Noun

adidas (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜒᜇᜐ᜔)

1. (colloquial) adidas (chicken feet sold as street food)
2. (back slang) daddy; dad; father

Further reading

• “adidas” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎^[2], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “adidas”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN, page 2