Meanings
plural talkie-walkies
- non-native speakers' EnglishA walkie-talkie.
Mr "secret agent" who carries a talkie-walkie that is not really a talkie-walkie (stupid guy boasting about his VHF as if it was a 48 caliber on his Web Page!!)
1997 December 21, Madjid BOUKRI, “ANTENNA LENGTH”, in rec.radio.amateur.misc (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 20221 more example
But they seem to be designed to work with talkie-walkies. I remind i do not need a talkie-walkie as my transmitter (noone has to talk to me ) but a^([sic]) input jack for the transmitter. It is the mp3 player that plays music. Unless there are talkie-walkies with jack input?
2003 April 30, alex, “Discrete Wireless mp3 player How to”, in sci.electronics.components (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022
Origin
- Frenchtalkie-walkie
- Englishtalkie-walkie
Borrowed from French talkie-walkie, and this a pseudo-anglicism, derived from an inversion of English walkie-talkie.
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