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doubletalk

doubletalk is the alternative form of double talk.

Meaning of double talk

Noun

double talk (uncountable)

  1. 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
  2. Lies, especially in a formal political statement.
  3. 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
  4. A simple phonetic code with a regular infix that makes meaningful speech sound unintelligible.
  5. A situation when two people talk at the same time, causing overlapping audio signals.

Origin of doubletalk

From double + talk, possibly written as one word in homage to George Orwell's Newspeak (as with doublespeak).

Questions about doubletalk

What is doubletalk the alternative form of?
Doubletalk is the alternative form of double talk.

Words near doubletalk in the dictionary

  1. doublet
  2. doubletail
  3. doubletails
  4. doubletake
  5. doubletakes
  6. doubletalk
  7. doubletalker
  8. doubletalkers
  9. doubletap
  10. doubletapped
  11. doubletapping

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