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folky

folky adjective: having the character of folk music.

Adjective

folky (comparative folkier, superlative folkiest)

  1. (informal) Having the character of folk music
    • The band opened with a folky little number.
    • James Taylor flew into England to see if he could interest the Beatles' Apple label into recording "Carolina In My Mind" and some of his other folky material.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 244

folky meaning in Bengali

folky in Bengali

লোকসংগীতের বৈশিষ্ট্যসম্পন্ন

Forms of folky

comparativefolkier
superlativefolkiest

Origin of folky

From folk + -y.

Words formed from folky

Words that rhyme with folky

9 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about folky

What does folky mean?
Folky means having the character of folk music.
What is folky in Bengali?
Folky in Bengali is লোকসংগীতের বৈশিষ্ট্যসম্পন্ন. See Folky meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is folky?
Folky is an adjective.

Words near folky in the dictionary

  1. folktune
  2. folktunes
  3. folkway
  4. folkways
  5. folkweave
  6. folky
  7. foll
  8. Folland
  9. Follansbee
  10. Follansbees
  11. foller

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Adapted from Wiktionary: folky (page history and authors); folky (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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