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talkee-talkee|ˈtɔːkɪˌtɔːkɪ|
[A reduplicated derivative of talk, with dimin. ending.]
1. The name given to various English-based pidgins or creoles; esp. the lingua franca of West Indian Blacks; spec. (usu. spelt Taki-Taki; also with lower-case initials) an English-based creole language of Surinam; = Ningre Tongo, Sranan.
1808Edin. Rev. XII. 413 The talkee-talkee, or negro jargon, is now chiefly English. 1810Southey Let. to J. May 5 Dec., The talkee talkee of the slaves in the Sugar Islands, as it is called, will prevail in Surinam. 1828Life Planter Jamaica 13 Ignorant of the negro corrupted dialect, or the talkee talkee language. 1856J. H. Newman Callista i. (1890) 8 Not without parallel in the talkee-talkee of the West Indian negro. 1932A. G. Barnett in Amer. Speech VII. 394 In Paramaribo, this speech of former slaves has degenerated into ‘Talkee-talkee’, which is loaded with a heavy percentage of Dutch. 1933,1939[see Ningre Tongo]. 1955Caribbean Q. IV. ii. 167 Translation in the Rural Creole of Surinam (Taki Taki) by Albert Helman. 1961F. G. Cassidy Jamaica Talk i. 8 It [sc. Macca] got into the common speech and has remained in Taki-taki and in Jamaican. 1970Language XLVI. 409 Saramaccan..is only partly intelligible to speakers of Sranan or Taki-taki.
2. Small-talk; petty or childish talk, chatter; continuous talk or prattle. (contemptuous.)
1812M. Edgeworth Vivian x, There's a woman, now, who thinks of nothing living but herself!—all talkee talkee! 1840Fraser's Mag. XXII. 55 The usual nothings which make up talkee-talkee. 1890Nature 6 Mar. 410/2 That ‘talkee-talkee’ so often forced into books of this kind.
attrib.1869Huxley in Life (1900) I. xxiii. 309 The discourses are to [be] lessons and not talkee-talkee lectures. |