folkie
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A folk singer, or an enthusiast of folk music.
adj
of, or relating to folk music
Example Sentences
- "When I say "political" I don't just mean lesbian or gay. I'm a folkie deep at heart and regularly attend concerts of Si Kahn, Fred Small, Bright Morning Star, Marcia Taylor, Debra Silverstein, Solid Ground, and many other groups and individuals from the political folk tradition."
- "He had come to Carnegie Hall not to imitate him but to channel him with the self he happened to be at that moment, not at all the green folkie who had set the world ablaze just a few years earlier."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *fulką Proto-West Germanic *folk Old English folc Middle English folk English folk English -ie English folkie From folk + -ie.