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▪ I. talking, vbl. n.|ˈtɔːkɪŋ|
[f. talk v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the verb talk; speaking, discoursing. Also (colloq.), talking to, a reprimand, an admonition; phr. to do the talking.
a1300Cursor M. 14760 It es bot foli al þi talking. 13..Ibid. 27792 O suernes [F. slauþe] cums..vnnait talckhing. c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. 131 Whil this yeman was thus in his talkyng This Chanon drough hym neer. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. lvii. 134 Þi consolacions are not as mannes talkinges or confabulacions. 1503Hawes Examp. Virt. viii. 155 Of whome I oft haue herd grete talkynge. 1667Jer. Taylor Dissuas. Popery ii. ii. vi. 144 The superstitious talkings and actings, of their Priests. 1781Cowper Conversat. 8 Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse. 1873Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes III. iv. 91 Knight did most of the talking along the journey. c1875‘Brenda’ Froggy's Little Brother (new ed.) iii. 35 I'd give him such a talking-to as never he had in his life before! 1884Clark Russell Jack's Courtsh. xvii, A person capable of giving a seaman a talking to. 1903Red Book Aug. 367/2 The girl did the talking, but for nearly an hour the head of the detective bureau sat silent, impassive as the sphinx. 1948G. Vidal City & Pillar x. 303 Bob did most of the talking and Jim listened.
b. attrib. and Comb., as talking blues, a blues song in which the lyrics (usu. narrative) are articulated in a rhythm approaching that of speech; † talking-craft (see craft n. 6 c); talking cure, colloq. name for psychoanalysis or psychotherapy which relies on verbal interaction; talking-house, a house where people meet for conversation; talking point, a topic suitable for or inviting discussion or argument; talking-shop, a centre for idle and unconstructive talk; (derog.) applied to a parliament, spec. the House of Commons; † talking-stock, a subject of talk.
1969New Yorker 1 Nov. 25/1 Alice's Restaurant—Arthur Penn's extension of Arlo Guthrie's talking-blues record. 1979M. Boyce I was There! 10/2 My first attempt at song writing took the form of humorous verse (in ‘talking Blues’ fashion).
1562Winȝet Cert. Tractatis i. Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 8 Vtheris..makis of the Gospell ane takin craft.
1910tr. Freud's Outl. & Devel. Psychoanal. in Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. XXI. 184 The patient herself, who at this time of her illness..spoke only English, gave this new kind of treatment the name of ‘talking cure’. 1977R. Holland Self & Social Context viii. 240 At first sight nothing would seem more obvious than the dominant role of language in therapy—the talking cure.
1681Owen Apostasy Wks. 1852 VII. 256 This makes..misspense of time in talking-houses.
1922S. Lewis Babbitt iv. 47 A broker..who understood Talking Points, Strategic Values, Key Situations, Underappraisals. 1979B. Parvin Deadly Dyke vi. 28 Quite a change of climate..but a talking point.
1912C. Mackenzie Carnival xliv. 385 Village! Talking-shop, I should say. 1922A. M. Hyamson Dict. Eng. Phrases 337/1 Talking mill (shop), the, (contemptuously) the House of Commons. 1942R. G. Collingwood New Leviathan 213 Contemptuous language about the ‘talking-shop at Westminster’. 1944F. A. Hayek Road to Serfdom v. 46 Parliaments came to be regarded as ineffective ‘talking shops’. 1963V. Gielgud Goggle-Box Affair v. 49, I was an M.P. then... God knows why, damned talking-shop! 1979R. Blythe View in Winter i. 72 The forge is the classic talking-shop of the village.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke xxiv. 189 A common talkyng stocke to all peoples.
▪ II. talking, ppl. a.|ˈtɔːkɪŋ|
[f. talk v. + -ing2.]
1. That talks; loquacious.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 177 One talkyng tung. 1699R. L'Estrange Erasm. Colloq. (1711) 92 This is the talkingst Place that ever I set my Foot in. 1710Steele Tatler No. 197 ⁋3 The talking Creatures we meet in publick Places. 1770Goldsm. Des. Vill. 14 The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made. 1870M. D. Conway Earthw. Pilgr. xiii. 171 Man has been defined as the talking animal.
2. a. Comb. talking book (orig. U.S.), a sound recording of a book, for use by the blind; talking clock = speaking clock s.v. speaking ppl. a. 1; cf. Tim2; talking doll, a doll capable of emitting elementary sounds or words when activated; also transf. (of a person); talking drum, one of a set of drums, each pitched differently, which are beaten to transmit the words of a message in a tonal language, chiefly in W. Afr. (usu. in pl.); talking head (slang), a television presenter or interviewer who is shown on the screen talking directly in close-up to the camera; freq. in pl.; also transf.; talking machine (chiefly U.S.), (a) a machine designed to imitate human speech; spec. (the vocal mechanism of) a talking doll (rare); also fig.; (b) a phonograph; a gramophone which reproduces human speech (now only Hist.); talking phonograph: see phonograph n. 3 a.
1932Ann. Rep. Amer. Foundation for the Blind 2 The development of books on phonograph records, or ‘Talking Books’, will be one of the greatest boons ever conferred on the blind. 1960Guardian 22 July 3/4 The blind in Britain are to have ‘talking books’ incorporating the most advanced tape recording and play-back techniques... The present talking-books are long-playing records. 1978D. Bloodworth Crosstalk xxi. 168 Extra-large cassettes..from the library of the National Institute for the Blind... He examined the talking books.
1936Discovery Oct. 315/1 The ‘talking-clock’ from which, merely by dialling T-I-M, every telephone user can now learn the exact time. 1969N. Freeling Tsing-Boum xiii. 94 One could phone the talking clock.
1925C. Morley Thunder on Left xix. 241 There was the bleat of one of the talking dolls. ‘Maaa-Maa!’ it cried. 1974H. R. F. Keating Underside vii. 66 He had been able to regard her completely in the light of some talking doll, irritating but unconnected..with the reality of life. 1977Detroit Free Press 11 Dec. 15-a/3 (Advt.), The many phrases this big, beautiful talking doll ‘Baby Sez’ will make your daughter the happiest kid on the block.
1897M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. vi. 114 In the street one sees the characteristic standing drum..and one or two talking-drums besides. 1923R. S. Rattray Ashanti iii. 104 The big talking drums were immediately behind him and beat out: The King has sat down. 1966C. Achebe Man of People xiii. 166 These were the same people that only the other day..praise-singers followed with song and talking-drum. 1977Rolling Stone 24 Mar. 48/2 Even drummer Mick Fleetwood finally ventured out from behind his drum kit to play the African talking drum on ‘World Turning’. 1983Guardian 19 July 9/4 A talking drums player from Ghana who seemed to have wandered on stage uninvited.
1968Punch 24 Apr. 617/3 Indifference to people who weren't talking-heads?.. If they were so monumentally unmemorable shouldn't they have been skipped altogether? 1976Listener 15 Jan. 52/1, I begin to get very tired of the ‘important’ interview—indeed, of all talking heads—on television. 1980Ibid. 4 Sept. 299/1, I looked at the talking heads, telling their stories directly to the camera.
1844Quincy (Illinois) Herald 9 Feb. 3/2 A German, named Faber,..in New York, has invented and brought to perfection a talking machine. It is played on by keys like a piano, and can be made to say any thing, in any language, that its inventor desires. 1844Picayune (New Orleans) 18 Mar. 38/2 Why don't you go see the Talking Machine, and take little Matilda along with you? 1846N. P. Willis Compl. Works iii. 674/2, I had a half-hour's interview with the talking machine this morning, and found him a more entertaining android than most of my wooden acquaintances. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. No. 1. 52 A redtape Talking-machine and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence. 1891Appleton's Ann. Cycl. 1890 709/1 In 1886, J. S. Taintor, working along the lines followed by Mr. Edison, produced a talking machine, which was called the graphophone, or phonograph-graphophone. 1897R. Stuart In Simpkinsville 110 The little talkin' machine inside it has got out o' fix..an' it don't say ‘papa’ an' ‘mama’ any more. 1930W. Faulkner As I lay Dying 181 Cash aimed to buy that talking machine from Suratt with that money.
b. talking film, talking movie, talking picture (now Hist.) = talkie a; also formerly talking photograph.
1904Science Siftings 26 Mar. 353/1 The inventor believes that in a short time these talking photographs will supersede the phonograph. 1908Variety 16 May 11/3 (heading) Natural voice talking pictures... The idea is to have a capable company behind the screen and take up the cue as each character comes in view. 1921[see cinephone]. 1927N.Y. Times 28 Aug. vii. 4 If a ‘talking movie’ throughout were being made, it would be necessary to film a thousand feet at a time. 1978Lancashire Life Oct. 97/3 Talking-pictures were introduced under the management of the late Ignatius Cullen, whose daughters continue to run the Civic Hall Cinema..showing ‘wholesome family films’ only.
Hence ˈtalkingly adv., in a talking manner.
1895H. B. M. Watson in Chap-Bk. III. 489 At the word, spoken very talkingly, and with such an absence of offense, my dudgeon vanished. |