walkie-talkie

• walkie talkie
• walky-talky

From walking +‎ talking.

walkie-talkie (plural walkie-talkies)

1. 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.

2. (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.

From English walkie-talkie, from walk and talk.

• IPA^(key): /vɔːrkitɔːrki/, [ˌwɒːɡ̊iˈtˢɒːɡ̊i]

walkie-talkie c (singular definite walkie-talkien, plural indefinite walkie-talkier)

1. walkie-talkie

• walkie

From English walkie-talkie.

• IPA^(key): /wɔ.ki.tɔ.ki/

walkie-talkie m (plural walkie-talkies)

1. (North America, obsolete) walkie-talkie

• “walkie-talkie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English walkie-talkie.

walkie-talkie m (plural walkie-talkies)

1. walkie-talkie

Unadapted borrowing from English walkie-talkie.

walkie-talkie m (plural walkie-talkies)

1. walkie-talkie (portable communication radio)

Unadapted borrowing from English walkie-talkie.

walkie-talkie n (plural walkie-talkie)

1. walkie-talkie

• walkie talkie

Unadapted borrowing from English walkie-talkie.

• IPA^(key): /ˌw̝oki ˈtoki/ [ˌw̝o.ki ˈt̪o.ki]

walkie-talkie m (plural walkie-talkies)

1. walkie-talkie

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.

• “walkie-talkie”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024