Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

talkie-walkie

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English

Syllables: talkie-walkie
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A walkie-talkie.

Example Sentences

"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!!)"
"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?"

Etymology

Borrowed from French talkie-walkie, and this a pseudo-anglicism, derived from an inversion of English walkie-talkie.

Origin

Source language: English

Word Breakdown

Root: walkie-talkie

Inflected Forms

talkie-walkies (plural)

Questions

What does talkie-walkie mean?: A walkie-talkie.
Where does talkie-walkie come from?: It is traced to English.

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