Folker vs Folkier - What's the difference?
folker | folkier |
A performer of folk music.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 15, author=The New York Times, title=Pop and Rock Listings, work=New York Times
, passage=BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE (Monday) This 1960s protest folker and longtime champion of American Indian rights will surely sing “Now That the Buffalo’s Gone” and “Until It’s Time for You to Go,” and maybe even “Cod’ine,” which became a garage-rock standard. }}
* 2007 , David Else, Great Britain (page 701)
(folkie)
a folk singer, or an enthusiast of folk music
* 2011 , David Yaffe,
of, or relating to folk music
As a noun folker
is a performer of folk music.As an adjective folkier is
(folkie).folker
English
Noun
(en noun)citation
- ...Scotland's finest modern folkers King Creosote and James Yorkston...
folkier
English
Adjective
(head)folkie
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Noun
(en noun)Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown, p. 16:
- He had come to Carnegie Hall not to imitate him but to channel him with the self he happened to be at that moment, not at all the green folkie who had set the world ablaze just a few years earlier.