Meanings
folker1
plural folkers
- A performer of folk music.
...Scotland's finest modern folkers King Creosote and James Yorkston...
2007, David Else, Great Britain, page 7011 more example
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE (Monday) This 1960s protest folker and longtime champion of American Indian rights will surely sing “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone” and “Until It’s Time for You to Go,” and maybe even “Cod’ine,” which became a garage-rock standard.
2007 June 15, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times
Folker2
Origin
Folker · proper noun
- GermanVolker
- EnglishFolker
Variant of Fulcher or an Americanized spelling of German Volker.
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folker. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/folker
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