double talk

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See also: doubletalk and double-talk

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Etymology

From double +‎ talk. Compare Middle English twispeche, Old English twīspǣċ, twīsprǣċ.

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Noun

double talk (uncountable)

  1. Doublespeak.
    • 1947, Men's Wear, volume 114, page 90, column 1:
      "Frammis on the Antispode": The doubletalk heading this paragraph takes the sting out of Mr. Ruark's comment, even if his gay colored foulard Sinatra bow tie didn't contradict his comment[.]
  2. Lies, especially in a formal political statement.
  4. (comedy) Speech which combines English (or some other language) and native-sounding gibberish for humorous effect.
    • 2014, Rick DesRochers, The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 15:
      [Sid] Caesar's vaudeville format included burlesques—in the nineteenth-century meaning of parody—featuring silent-film and film noir send-ups; Italian opera produced in Caesar's ad-libbed, faux-Italian double-talk; […]
  5. A simple phonetic code with a regular infix that makes meaningful speech sound unintelligible.
  6. (telephony) A situation when two people talk at the same time, causing overlapping audio signals.

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