talkie
/ˈtɔːki/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "“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.”"
- ""[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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: ie
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.