talkie
noun/ˈtɔːki/
Etymology Clipping of talking picture, via + -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie.
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Dated, Historical, Informal A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film.
- On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, the first sound-synched feature film, prompting a technological shift of unprecedented speed and unstoppable force. Within two years, nearly every studio release was a talkie.2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
- “We have just returned from the talkies.” “They should never have added sound. There was pop music and people talking all the way through it.”2020 May 20, Jemaine Clement, “The Return” (0:12 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 2, episode 7, spoken by Nadja (Natasia Demetriou):
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Dated, Historical A song in which the lyrics are spoken rather than sung.
- "[Love] Jones," [named after] a slang expression for addiction, was a string-infested talkie-thing that surprised many folks when it mounted for the upper reaches of Billboard’s pop charts.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 292:
- Derived terms
- handy talkie, walkie-talkie