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Double talk

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Doublespeak. uncountable

    ""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[.]"

  2. 2
    deliberately unintelligible gibberish wordnet
  3. 3
    Lies, especially in a formal political statement. uncountable
  4. 4
    Speech which combines English (or some other language) and native-sounding gibberish for humorous effect. uncountable

    "[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;[…]"

  5. 5
    A simple phonetic code with a regular infix that makes meaningful speech sound unintelligible. uncountable
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  1. 6
    A situation when two people talk at the same time, causing overlapping audio signals. uncountable

Etymology

From double + talk. Compare Middle English twispeche, Old English twīspǣċ, twīsprǣċ.

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