double-talk
double-talk is the alternative form of double talk.
Meaning of double talk
Noun
double talk (uncountable)
- Doublespeak.
- "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[.]1947, Men's Wear, volume 114, page 90, column 1
- Lies, especially in a formal political statement.
- Speech which combines English (or some other language) and native-sounding gibberish for humorous effect.
- [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;[…]2014, Rick DesRochers, The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 15
- A simple phonetic code with a regular infix that makes meaningful speech sound unintelligible.
- A situation when two people talk at the same time, causing overlapping audio signals.
- Synonyms:
- doublespeak, double Dutch, gibberish, jibber-jabber, nonsense
Questions about double-talk
- What is double-talk the alternative form of?
- Double-talk is the alternative form of double talk.
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