Green’s Dictionary of Slang

talky-talk n.

also talkee-talkee, talky-talky

idle, futile, empty talk; thus talky-talky adj. emptily verbose.

[[Ind]E.R. Sullivan Bungalow or Tent 33: I had heard the ‘talkie-talkie’ of the niggers in Demarara].
[UK]Sat. Rev. (London) 10 Feb. 189: These Essays [...] are very talky-talky [F&H].
[US](con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 221: All that kind of humbug talky-talk.
St Joseph Gaz.-Hewrald (MI) 2 Feb. 6/2: ‘You see it’s [i.e. a play script] awfully talky-talky. Why it would put an aueince to sleep as it is now’.
[UK] ‘’Arry at a Political Pic-Nic’ in Punch 11 Oct. 180/1: Rum game this yer Politics, Charlie, seems arf talkee-talkee and trap.
[UK]Isle of man Wkly 11 Nov. 3/1: They had had [...] too much ‘talky talky’.
[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Nov. 14/4: The Tennyson, himself, still leaned goutily on his stick, while ‘Wally’ made talky-talky for the benefit of Miss Duff, and Aide Nevill, as usual, trotted out his ‘ways of pleasantness’ to break the monotony for the French governess and her three charges.
[UK]G.B. Shaw John Bull’s Other Island IV ii: Why cant you say a simple thing simply, Karry, without all that Irish exaggeration and talky-talky?
[US]G.V. Hobart Jim Hickey 97: He said you must do a thinking part. The talky-talk puts you over on Woozy Avenue!
[US]Inter Ocean (Chicago) 4 Oct. 2/6: He who ‘can’ usually ‘does’. [...] The talky-talky man is a nuisance.
[US]S.F. Call 1 Dec. 27/2: ‘Talky-talky, talky-talky! Too much talky-talky along you’.
[US]Lincoln Jrnl Star (NE) 6 Jan. 5/1: A healf-hearted argument develops [...] talky-talky-talk, as lear would say crazily .
[US]C. McKay Gingertown 14: I ain’t a talky-talky person like these here slick Harlem niggers.
Dly Herald (London) 3 May 10/7: What a lot of talky-talky there is .
[US]News-Record (Neenah, WI) 2 Aug. 1/4: They were warned against making them [i.e. speeches] ‘so broad as to be vague and talky-talky’.
[US]San Diego Sailor 54: All this talky-talky made me feel as though I ought to be running a column like Dorothy Dix.