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talkee-talkee en · NOUN · etymology 1

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of talky-talky.
   alt of talky-talky

talkee-talkee en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (historical, uncountable) A creole, especially the Anglo-Dutch language spoken in Demerara and elsewhere in what is now Guyana and Suriname.
   • The interpreter did not speak Toyo’s language but rather what the court calls “Taki-Taki - more properly called Sranan-tongo, the Creole language of coastal Suriname. 2010, Richard Price, Travels with Tooy: History, Memory and the African American Imagination, page 186:
   • 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. 1810 December 5, Robert Southey, “To John May, Esq.”, in John Wood Warter, editor, Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, published 1856, page 206:
   • Surinam (Dutch Guiana)[…]Dutch, English, Javanese, "talkie-talkie". 1951, Armed Forces Talk, page 13:
   • The talkee-talkee of a North-American Indian, and the song of Deborah, might each have stood as the model. 1854, Samuel Phillips, A second Series of Essays from "the Times", page 280:
   • It must not be understood that homosexuality is confined to women. Relationships of this type exist also among men, and in taki-taki are to be found words which are specific designations for male homosexuals, who are termed hantimąn, or awɛge. 1936, Melville J. Herskovits, Frances S. Herskovits, Suriname folk-lore, New York: Columbia University Press, page 32:

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