walker

See also: Walker

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Middle English walkere, from Old English wealcere.

PronunciationEdit

• Rhymes: -ɔːkə(ɹ)

NounEdit

walker (plural walkers)

1. The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
   • 1816, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume 1 Chapter 8

     "I would ask for the pleasure of your company, Mr. Knightley, but I am a very slow walker, and my pace would be tedious to you; and, besides, you have another long walk before you, to Donwell Abbey."

   • 2005, Carlo De Vito, 10 Secrets My Dog Taught Me: Life Lessons from a Man's Best Friend (page 88)

     We hired a walker for the dogs during the day.

2. A walking frame.
3. (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
4. A person who walks (or waulks) cloth, that is, who fulls it.
5. A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
   • 1980 December 29, New York Magazine, volume 14, number 1, page 26:

     He's really just a 'walker' for old ladies!" Walkers, now, are a special breed of pilot fish — entertaining male escorts

   • 1981, Spare rib: Volumes 108-119

     Women at the top — Lady Di and Nancy Reagan in particular — apparently have 'walkers' — men to escort them on public and private occasions providing a respectable cover, while the male who is their sexual partner is off on more pressing business.

   • 1984, Clemens David Heymann, Poor little rich girl: the life and legend of Barbara Hutton

     In the vernacular of the trade, he was what is commonly known as "a walker" — an entertaining male escort who is usually sexually unthreatening […]

   • 2007, The Walker (film about a male escort)

SynonymsEdit

• (walking frame): walking frame, Zimmer frame

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from walker

• baby walker

• highwire walker
• planeswalker

• skinwalker
• tightrope walker

TranslationsEdit

person who walks

• Czech: chodec (cs) m
• Dutch: wandelaar (nl)
• Estonian: kõndija
• Finnish: kävelijä (fi)
• French: marcheur (fr) m
• Georgian: მავალი (mavali), მოსიარულე (mosiarule)
• Greek: πεζοπόρος (el) m, f (pezopóros), περιπατητής (el) m (peripatitís)
• Irish: válcaeir m

• Norman: marcheux m (Jersey)
• Portuguese: andarilho
• Russian: ходо́к (ru) m (xodók), пешехо́д (ru) m (pešexód) (pedestrian)
• Scottish Gaelic: coisiche m
• Sinhalese: sprehajalec (sprehajalec), sprehajalka (sprehajalka)
• Spanish: caminante (es) m
• Swedish: gående (sv) c, fotgängare (sv) c, vandrare (sv) c, gångare (sv) c (especially in walking races)

walking frame

• French: déambulateur (fr) m

shoe designed for comfortable walking

• Finnish: kävelykenkä

• Swedish: gångsko c

person who walks cloth

• Finnish: huovuttaja (fi)

• Spanish: caminante (es) m

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} pejalan (kaki) (id)

See alsoEdit

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AnagramsEdit

• rewalk

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ManxEdit

EtymologyEdit

walk (“waulk, full, tuck”) +‎ -er

NounEdit

walker m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. tucker

SynonymsEdit

• walkeyder