different between tankie vs tawkie

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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

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