talkie
English edit
Etymology edit
Clipping of talking picture, via + -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
talkie (plural talkies)
- (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.
- (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.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
movie with sound
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French edit
Noun edit
talkie m (plural talkies)
- Synonym of talkie-walkie