talkie

English

Etymology

Clipping of talking picture, via +‎ -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtɔːki/
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    Rhymes: -ɔːki

Noun

talkie (plural talkies)

  1. (informal, dated or historical) A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film.
    • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
      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.
  2. (dated or historical) A song in which the lyrics are spoken rather than sung.
    • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 292:
      "[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.

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French

Noun

talkie m (plural talkies)

  1. Synonym of talkie-walkie
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