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See also: doubletalk and double-talk
English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From double + talk. Compare Middle English twispeche, Old English twīspǣċ, twīsprǣċ.
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Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun[edit]
- Doublespeak.
- 1947, Men's Wear, volume 114, page 90, column 1:
- "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[.]
- Lies, especially in a formal political statement.
- (comedy) Speech which combines English (or some other language) and native-sounding gibberish for humorous effect.
- 2014, Rick DesRochers, The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 15:
- [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; […]
- A simple phonetic code with a regular infix that makes meaningful speech sound unintelligible.
- (telephony) A situation when two people talk at the same time, causing overlapping audio signals.
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Further reading[edit]
- double-talk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia