double talk

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double talk

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

noun double-talk · doubletalk

uncountable Doublespeak. "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[.]
uncountable Lies, especially in a formal political statement.
uncountable Speech which combines English (or some other language) and native-sounding gibberish for humorous effect. [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;[…]
uncountable A simple phonetic code with a regular infix that makes meaningful speech sound unintelligible.
uncountable A situation when two people talk at the same time, causing overlapping audio signals.
Similar: doublespeak, double Dutch, gibberish, jibber-jabber, nonsense

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@misc{double_talk_2026,
  title = {double talk},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/double%20talk},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}