talkie-walkie

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French talkie-walkie.

Noun

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

Etymology

Borrowed, and inverted, from English walkie-talkie.

Pronunciation

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

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Noun

talkie-walkie m (plural talkie-walkies)

1. (Europe) walkie-talkie

Further reading

• “talkie-walkie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French talkie-walkie.

Noun

talkie-walkie n (uncountable)

1. walkie-talkie

Declension

declension of talkie-walkie (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) talkie-walkie	talkie-walkieul
genitive/dative	(unui) talkie-walkie	talkie-walkieului
vocative	talkie-walkieule