Folker

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A performer of folk music.

    "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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

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"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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From folk + -er.

Etymology 2

Variant of Fulcher or an Americanized spelling of German Volker.

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folk music

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