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Dalek voice

Dalek voice noun: a harsh, throaty, staccato, monotone voice.

Noun

Dalek voice (plural Dalek voices)

  1. A harsh, throaty, staccato, monotone voice.
    • Burk replied in his husky Dalek voice without looking at the King but also without any trepidation: 'I was christened Herbert Burk.'1982, Jakov Lind, Travels to the Enu: Story of a Shipwreck, page 60
    • And it was something just to have it to look forward to, to think about instead of thinking about the Dalek voice. I have your notebook.1984, Eileen Dewhurst, The House that Jack Built, page 40

Examples of Dalek voice in a sentence

  • […]eyes and a Dalek voice, and its dreadful polished face keeps swivelling towards me; it is an iron Archie Andrews, but I do not have to make it speak.1985, Punch, 288: 11:
  • "Now press button A," a Dalek voice tells someone who is trying to set the video recorder to tape a TV programme for later viewing.1988, New Scientist, 118: 79:
  • You know, this Dalek voice says, "The-bonnet's-open, you-are-low-on-fuel, the-engine-tem-perature-is-high, we're-not-going-to-make-it-on-this-one-Nick, we'll-be-walking-after-this-corner."1997, Bruno MacDonald, Pink Floyd: through the eyes of...the band, its fans, friends, and foes, page 310:
  • Many questions were literary concoctions, edited from conversation into rather stiff print (One review referred to our 'Dalek voice'.)1998, Fred Inglis, Raymond Williams, page 260:

Forms of Dalek voice

pluralDalek voices

Origin of Dalek voice

After the Daleks on the British science-fiction programme Doctor Who, where they spoke with an electronically modulated voice.

Questions about Dalek voice

What does Dalek voice mean?
Dalek voice means a harsh, throaty, staccato, monotone voice.
How do you use Dalek voice in a sentence?
[…]eyes and a Dalek voice, and its dreadful polished face keeps swivelling towards me; it is an iron Archie Andrews, but I do not have to make it speak.
What part of speech is Dalek voice?
Dalek voice is a noun.
What is the plural of Dalek voice?
The plural of Dalek voice is Dalek voices.

Words near Dalek voice in the dictionary

  1. daleds
  2. daleel
  3. daleem
  4. Dalehouse
  5. dalek
  6. Dalek voice
  7. Dalek voices
  8. daleks
  9. daleky
  10. daleman
  11. dalemen

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