Word.ws English Dictionary

handie-talkie

handie-talkie noun: synonym of walkie-talkie (“portable bidirectional radio transceiver”).

Noun

handie-talkie (plural handie-talkies)

  1. (dated) Synonym of walkie-talkie (“portable bidirectional radio transceiver”).
    Synonyms:
    walkie-talkie

Synonyms of handie-talkie

Forms of handie-talkie

pluralhandie-talkies

Origin of handie-talkie

Originally military, used since at least 1943. By surface analysis, hand + -ie + talk with reduplication of the suffix.

Questions about handie-talkie

What does handie-talkie mean?
Handie-talkie means synonym of walkie-talkie (“portable bidirectional radio transceiver”).
What part of speech is handie-talkie?
Handie-talkie is a noun.
What is the plural of handie-talkie?
The plural of handie-talkie is handie-talkies.

Words near handie-talkie in the dictionary

  1. handicraftswomen
  2. handicuffs
  3. handie
  4. handie talkie
  5. handie talkies
  6. handie-talkie
  7. handie-talkies
  8. handier
  9. handies
  10. handiest
  11. Handigodu syndrome

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: handie-talkie (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “handie-talkie.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/handie-talkie. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.