talkie
noun/ˈtɔːki/
Etymology
Clipping of talking picture, via + -ie, and thus morphologically parallel with movie.
Definitions
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.
- “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.”
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.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for talkie. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA