double talk
nounEtymology From double + talk. Compare Middle English twispeche, Old English twīspǣċ, twīsprǣċ.
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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:
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Lies, especially in a formal political statement.
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Comedy, Entertainment, Lifestyle 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:
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A simple phonetic code with a regular infix that makes meaningful speech sound unintelligible.
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Communications, Electrical engineering, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Telecommunications, Telephony A situation when two people talk at the same time, causing overlapping audio signals.
- Synonyms
- doublespeak, double Dutch, gibberish, jibber-jabber, nonsense
- Derived terms
- double talker