different between talkie vs tankie

English

Etymology

From a clipping of talking (picture), +? -ie. Compare movie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??ki/

  Rhymes: -??ki

Noun

talkie (plural talkies)

1. (informal, dated or historical) A movie with sound, as opposed to a silent film.
   • 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:

     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.

Antonyms

• silent film
• silent movie

Derived terms

• walkie-talkie

Translations

French

Noun

talkie m (plural talkies)

1. Synonym of talkie-walkie

English

Alternative forms

• (tank soldier; member of the Communist Party of Great Britain): tanky

Etymology

tank +? -ie

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ta?ki/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /tæ?ki/
• Rhymes: -æ?ki
• Homophone: tanky
• Hyphenation: tank?ie

Noun

tankie (plural tankies)

1. (communism, slang, historical, Britain) A member of the Communist Party of Great Britain who supported the Soviet Union's policy of crushing revolts in Hungary in the 1950s and Czechoslovakia in the 1960s by sending army tanks into these countries.
2. (communism, slang, derogatory, by extension) A person supportive of the policies of the Soviet Union or other authoritarian socialist governments.
   • 2009, Arthur Smith, “Rooms above Pubs”, in My Name is Daphne Fairfax: A Memoir, London: Hutchinson, ISBN 978-0-09-192103-3; republished London: Arrow Books, Random House, 2010, ISBN 978-0-09-951965-2, pages 181–182:

     As far as the Sparklies were concerned the new comics were scruffy herberts who shouted ‘Fuck Thatcher’ over and over, while raving Tankie Stalinists hooted indiscriminately in the front row.

3. (military slang) A soldier from a tank regiment.
4. (rail transport, slang) A tank engine.

Anagrams

• Aitken, Kantei, intake, kaiten, kentia, kinate, take in, take-in