talkee-talkee n.
1. chatter, conversation.
Hist. of Jamaica II 427: The Negroes seem very fond of reduplications [...] as walky-walky, talky-talky [...] fum-fum. | ||
To John May 5 Dec. n.p.: The talkee talkee of the slaves in the sugar islands [F&H]. | ||
Essays ii 280: A style of language for which the inflated bulletins of Napoleon, the talkee-talkee of a North American Indian, and the song of Deborah might each have stood as a model [F&H]. | ||
🎵 Every Chinese Miss / Is very much like English girls, / For what she loves is this — / Talkee, talkee. | ‘Talkee Talkee’||
Boy’s Own Paper 15 Dec. 166: His girls would close up after tea to hear the talkee-talkee. |
2. a talkative person.
Harper’s Mag. Dec. 38/1: I am only giving to these talkee-talkees the right to bully me [DA]. |
3. (W.I.) a form of jargon used in Demerara, a blend of Dutch and English.
Sporting Times 2 Sept. 2/4: The horrible language styled ‘talkee-talkee,’ which is a mixture of Dutch and the most vile broken English. | ||
Pittsburgh Press (PA) 21 Dec. 2/7: Everybody in Dutch Guianaspeaks two languages — his native tongue and talk-talky. | ||
Cincinnati Enquirer (OH) 3 Dec. 57/2-3: He must speak the official Dutch language [and] Talky-Talky for the Bush Negroes [...] Talky-Talky is a rich mixture of Dutch, English, Hindustani, French and a few words from Creole and bush. | ||
(ref. to late 18C) Voices in Exile 5: What is certain is that Creole, the ‘talkee-talkee’ language, was firmly in place by the mid-eighteeth century. |
4. see also talky-talk n.