walkie-talkie
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
walkie-talkie (plural walkie-talkies)
- A portable, bidirectional radio transceiver, usually one of a pair.
- 1962 July, “The Irish Scene”, in Modern Railways, page 11:
- It is intended to equip the yard foremen and shunters with "walkie-talkie" apparatus to keep them in close touch with the control office.
- 2009, L. K. Bandyopadhyay, S. K. Chaulya, P. K. Mishra, Wireless Communication in Underground Mines: RFID-based Sensor Networking, Springer,, →ISBN:
- A walkie-talkie is a handheld, portable, two-way radio transceiver. It includes a half-duplex channel (only one radio transmits at a time, though any number can listen) and a push-to-talk switch that starts transmission.
- (rare) A walk and talk.
- 1947, Nero Wolfe, Too Many Women: A Nero Wolfe Novel:
- It could be that her walkie-talkie with Naylor had concerned a private matter not connected with what was about to happen to him, ...
- 1993, B. Kaye Olson, Energy Secrets for Tired Mothers on the Run, Health Communications,, →ISBN, page 153:
- Go on a walkie-talkie. Everyone goes on a 15-minute brisk walk and talks about their day.
Translations edit
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Danish edit
Etymology edit
From English walkie-talkie, from walk and talk.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
walkie-talkie c (singular definite walkie-talkien, plural indefinite walkie-talkier)
Inflection edit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | walkie-talkie | walkie-talkien | walkie-talkier | walkie-talkierne |
genitive | walkie-talkies | walkie-talkiens | walkie-talkiers | walkie-talkiernes |
Synonyms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
From English walkie-talkie.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
walkie-talkie m (plural walkie-talkies)
Further reading edit
- “walkie-talkie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English walkie-talkie.
Noun edit
walkie-talkie m (plural walkie-talkies)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English walkie-talkie.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
walkie-talkie m (plural walkie-talkies)
- walkie-talkie (portable communication radio)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English walkie-talkie.
Noun edit
walkie-talkie n (plural walkie-talkie)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) walkie-talkie | walkie-talkiele | (niște) walkie-talkie | walkie-talkiele |
genitive/dative | (unui) walkie-talkie | walkie-talkielui | (unor) walkie-talkie | walkie-talkielor |
vocative | walkie-talkie | walkie-talkielor |
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English walkie-talkie.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
walkie-talkie m (plural walkie-talkies)
Usage notes edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading edit
- “walkie-talkie”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014