Dalek voice

noun

A harsh, throaty, staccato, monotone voice.

Meanings

nounDalek voice (plural Dalek voices)

plural Dalek voices

  1. A harsh, throaty, staccato, monotone voice.

    Sometimes one seems to hear it being read out by a dalek-voice

    1994, Buddhist Society (London, England), The Middle Way, volumes 69-70, page 120
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    Burk replied in his husky Dalek voice without looking at the King but also without any trepidation: 'I was christened Herbert Burk.'

    1982, Jakov Lind, Travels to the Enu: Story of a Shipwreck, page 60

    And it was something just to have it to look forward to, to think about instead of thinking about the Dalek voice. I have your notebook.

    1984, Eileen Dewhurst, The House that Jack Built, page 40

    […]eyes and a Dalek voice, and its dreadful polished face keeps swivelling towards me; it is an iron Archie Andrews, but I do not have to make it speak.

    1985, Punch, 288: 11

    "Now press button A," a Dalek voice tells someone who is trying to set the video recorder to tape a TV programme for later viewing.

    1988, New Scientist, 118: 79

    You know, this Dalek voice says, "The-bonnet's-open, you-are-low-on-fuel, the-engine-tem-perature-is-high, we're-not-going-to-make-it-on-this-one-Nick, we'll-be-walking-after-this-corner."

    1997, Bruno MacDonald, Pink Floyd: through the eyes of...the band, its fans, friends, and foes, page 310

Origin

After the Daleks on the British science-fiction programme Doctor Who, where they spoke with an electronically modulated voice.

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