talkee-talkee

English

Noun

talkee-talkee (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of talky-talky

Etymology 2

Reduplicated diminutive talk +‎ -ee.

Alternative forms
  • Taki-taki
  • talkie-talkie

Noun

talkee-talkee (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A creole, especially the Anglo-Dutch language spoken in Demerara and elsewhere in what is now Guyana and Suriname.
    • 1854, Samuel Phillips, A second Series of Essays from "the Times"‎, page 280:
      The talkee-talkee of a North-American Indian, and the song of Deborah, might each have stood as the model.
    • 1856, Robert Southey; John Wood Warter, Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey‎, page 206:
      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.
    • 1951, Armed Forces Talk‎, page 13:
      Surinam (Dutch Guiana) […] Dutch, English, Javanese, "talkie-talkie".
    • 2010, Richard Price, Travels with Tooy: History, Memory and the African American Imagination‎, page 186:
      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.
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