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English
Etymology 1
Noun
talkee-talkee (uncountable)
- Alternative form of talky-talky.
Etymology 2
Reduplicated diminutive talk + -ee. Compare Dutch takitaki (“pejorative term for Sranan Tongo”), Sranan Tongo takitaki (“to jabber, to chatter; chatter, idle talk”).
Noun
talkee-talkee (uncountable)
- (historical) A creole, especially the Anglo-Dutch language spoken in Demerara and elsewhere in what is now Guyana and Suriname.
1810 December 5, Robert Southey, “To John May, Esq.”, in John Wood Warter, editor, Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, published 1856, page 206:The talkee-talkee of the slaves in the sugar islands, as it is called, will prevail at Surinam, and become the language of Guiana. They have a printed bible in it already.
1854, Samuel Phillips, A second Series of Essays from "the Times", page 280:The talkee-talkee of a North-American Indian, and the song of Deborah, might each have stood as the model.
1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore, New York: Columbia University Press, page 32:It must not be understood that homosexuality is confined to women. Relationships of this type exist also among men, and in taki-taki are to be found words which are specific designations for male homosexuals, who are termed hantimąn, or awɛge.
1951, Armed Forces Talk, page 13:Surinam (Dutch Guiana) Dutch, English, Javanese, "talkie-talkie".
2010, Richard Price, Travels with Tooy: History, Memory and the African American Imagination, page 186:The interpreter did not speak Toyo’s language but rather what the court calls “Taki-Taki - more properly called Sranan-tongo, the Creole language of coastal Suriname.