Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

foldie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: foldie
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A folding bicycle.

Informal

noun

A snack (structurally similar to a taco) made by folding a slice of bread, a flatbread, or a tortilla around a filling such as meat.

Example Sentences

"[…] bread, Buck slapped together a few PB&J's and a foldie."
"37. BBQ Turkey Foldie […] They make this little turkey taco-melt type of thing in a thick homemade corn tortilla. Roy calls it a BBQ turkey foldie, […] everyone in the hood knows the turkey foldie: You get some cold cuts at the store—some turkey, some American cheese—you fold them in a flour tortilla, you pop it in the Foreman grill, and you have a turkey foldie."

Etymology

From fold + -ie.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: fold

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

foldies (plural)

Questions

What does foldie mean?: A folding bicycle.
Where does foldie come from?: From fold + -ie.

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