talkie-walkie
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French talkie-walkie.
Noun edit
talkie-walkie (plural talkie-walkies)
- (non-native speakers' English) A walkie-talkie.
- 2003 April 30, alex, “Discrete Wireless mp3 player How to”, in sci.electronics.components[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:
- 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?
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed, and inverted, from English walkie-talkie.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
talkie-walkie m (plural talkie-walkies)
Further reading edit
- “talkie-walkie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French talkie-walkie.
Noun edit
talkie-walkie n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of talkie-walkie (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) talkie-walkie | talkie-walkieul |
genitive/dative | (unui) talkie-walkie | talkie-walkieului |
vocative | talkie-walkieule |