talkie

English

Etymology

Clipping of talking picture, via +‎ -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔːki/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

  Rhymes: -ɔːki

Noun

talkie (plural talkies)

1. (informal, dated or historical) A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film.
   • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:

     On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.

   • 2020 May 20, Jemaine Clement, “The Return” (0:12 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎^[1], season 2, episode 7, spoken by Nadja (Natasia Demetriou):

     “We have just returned from the talkies.” “They should never have added sound. There was pop music and people talking all the way through it.”

2. (dated or historical) A song in which the lyrics are spoken rather than sung.
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 292:

     "[Love] Jones," [named after] a slang expression for addiction, was a string-infested talkie-thing that surprised many folks when it mounted for the upper reaches of Billboard’s pop charts.

Derived terms

• handy talkie
• walkie-talkie

Translations

movie with sound

• Armenian: խոսուն շարժապատկեր (xosun šaržapatker), հբչուն կինո (hbčʻun kino)
• French: film parlant m
• German: Tonfilm (de) m
• Hungarian: hangosfilm (hu)
• Icelandic: talmynd f
• Swedish: ljudfilm (sv) c, talfilm c
• Telugu: టాకీ (ṭākī)

French

Noun

talkie m (plural talkies)

1. Synonym of talkie-walkie