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Talkee-talkee

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of talky-talky. alt-of, alternative, uncountable
  2. 2
    A creole, especially the Anglo-Dutch language spoken in Demerara and elsewhere in what is now Guyana and Suriname. historical, uncountable

    "The talkee-talkee of the slaves in the sugar islands, as it is called, will prevail at Surinam, and become the language of Guiana. They have a printed bible in it already."

Etymology

Reduplicated diminutive talk + -ee. Compare Dutch takitaki (“pejorative term for Sranan Tongo”), Sranan Tongo takitaki (“to jabber, to chatter; chatter, idle talk”).

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