talkie-walkie

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French talkie-walkie.

Noun

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talkie-walkie (plural talkie-walkies)

  1. (non-native speakers' English) A walkie-talkie.
    • 1996 August 14, Philippe Cadic, “Can We modify GSM to be talkie walkies ? How”, in alt.cellular-phone-tech[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:
    • 1997 December 21, Madjid BOUKRI, “ANTENNA LENGTH”, in rec.radio.amateur.misc[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:
      Mr "secret agent" who carries a talkie-walkie that is not really a talkie-walkie (stupid guy boasting about his VHF as if it was a 48 caliber on his Web Page!!)
    • 2003 April 30, alex, “Discrete Wireless mp3 player How to”, in sci.electronics.components[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:
      But they seem to be designed to work with talkie-walkies. I remind i do not need a talkie-walkie as my transmitter (noone has to talk to me ) but a[sic] input jack for the transmitter. It is the mp3 player that plays music. Unless there are talkie-walkies with jack input?

French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Etymology

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Borrowed, and inverted, from English walkie-talkie.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /to.ki.wo.ki/, /tɔ.ki.wɔ.ki/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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talkie-walkie m (plural talkie-walkies)

  1. (Europe) walkie-talkie

Further reading

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French talkie-walkie.

Noun

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talkie-walkie n (uncountable)

  1. walkie-talkie

Declension

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