walkie-talkie

English

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Alternative forms

• walkie talkie
• walky-talky

Noun

walkie-talkie (plural walkie-talkies)

1. A portable, bi-directional radio transceiver, usually as a pair.
2. (rare) A walk and talk.
   • 1947, Nero Wolfe, Too Many Women: A Nero Wolfe Novel:

     It could be that her walkie-talkie with Naylor had concerned a private matter not connected with what was about to happen to him, ...

   • 1993, B. Kaye Olson, Energy Secrets for Tired Mothers on the Run, Health Communications, ISBN 1558742506, page 153:

     Go on a walkie-talkie. Everyone goes on a 15-minute brisk walk and talks about their day.

Translations

portable radio

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 步話機 (cmn), 步话机 (cmn) (bùhuàjī)

• Czech: vysílačka (cs) f
• Danish: walkie-talkie (da) c
• Finnish: radiopuhelin (fi)
• French: talkie-walkie (fr) m

• Galician: walkie-talkie (gl) m
• Greenlandic: radioaraq angallattagaq (kl)
• Japanese: トランシーバー (ja) (toranshībā), ウォーキートーキー (ja) (wōkītōkī)
• Malay: walkie-talkie (ms)
• Polish: krótkofalówka (pl) f
• Russian: рация (ru) (rácija) f, приёмопередатчик (ru) (prijomoperedátčik) m, уоки-токи (ru) (uóki-tóki) n, воки-токи (ru) (vóki-tóki) n

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Danish

Etymology

From English walkie-talkie, from walk and talk.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /vɔːrkitɔːrki/, [ˌwɒːɡ̊iˈtˢɒːɡ̊i]

Noun

walkie-talkie c (singular definite walkie-talkien, plural indefinite walkie-talkier)

1. walkie-talkie

Inflection

    Inflection of walkie-talkie

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	walkie-talkie	walkie-talkien	walkie-talkier	walkie-talkierne
genitive	walkie-talkies	walkie-talkiens	walkie-talkiers	walkie-talkiernes

Synonyms

• walkie

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Galician

Noun

walkie-talkie m (plural walkie-talkies)

1. walkie-talkie