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Tarzan-speak

Tarzan-speak noun: tarzanese.

Noun

Tarzan-speak (uncountable)

  1. Tarzanese
    • Although we were speaking full sentences, the language coming off our hands went like this: "We go market. What you want buy? This pretty, you like?" I call it Tarzan Speak.1992, R. Orin Cornett and Mary Elsie Daisey, The Cued Speech Resource Book for Parents of Deaf Children, Raleigh, NC: National Cued Speech Association, page 644
    • "Long time ago good. Now no good." That deathless piece of Injun- or Tarzan-speak, from the story "Fathers and Sons", should be added to "grace under pressure" as the sum of the Hemingway philosophy.1999 August 22, The Independent, London, page 10
    Synonyms:
    Tarzan English

Synonyms of Tarzan-speak

Origin of Tarzan-speak

From Tarzan + -speak.

Questions about Tarzan-speak

What does Tarzan-speak mean?
Tarzan-speak means tarzanese.
What part of speech is Tarzan-speak?
Tarzan-speak is a noun.

Words near Tarzan-speak in the dictionary

  1. Tarzan yell
  2. Tarzan yells
  3. Tarzan yodel
  4. Tarzan yodels
  5. Tarzan-like
  6. Tarzan-speak
  7. Tarzana
  8. Tarzaned
  9. Tarzanese
  10. Tarzanesque
  11. Tarzanian

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