Definitions
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- noun the developing speech of a young child
- noun an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child
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Examples
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Forgive me if my babytalk is not up to par but I hope I have gotten it far enough down to your level to understand.
McCain-Palin Logo 2008
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Okay … Last nights Idol was just alright for me … Paris’s babytalk is gonna get her booted and she was one of my favorites in the beginning!!!
AI5 – Round of 11 2006
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PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE tell me y'all don't talk to him in 'babytalk'?
Nicknames: You decide. Kat 2006
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"babytalk" during the act, or worse, doesn't spit out her gum before giving him a blowj ob.
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Most of the time I get babytalk — gobbledygook — but I must say, you are well spoken and articulate.
Snoopy Calling Jeff Swanson 2012
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Also, research shows that talking to your kids using these cute words back to them, or using “babytalk” actually stimulates the language center of their brain and lets them know you are engaged with them.
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If it sounded cool once, now “Sci-Fi” just sounds like babytalk, the linguistic equivalent of a duvet cover with cartoon aliens and robots on the rampage, or a lunchbox with rocketships and glow-in-the-dark stars.
Archive 2009-03-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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If it sounded cool once, now “Sci-Fi” just sounds like babytalk, the linguistic equivalent of a duvet cover with cartoon aliens and robots on the rampage, or a lunchbox with rocketships and glow-in-the-dark stars.
Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy? Hal Duncan 2009
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The most irksome part of his act is the babytalk, used to flatter and throw into relief all that intellect, and there is a question of how much the comedy plays on snobbish reactions to a guy with long hair and Essex vowels name-dropping philosophers.
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While we might take solace in our own anthropic prejudice, dismissing the nonsensical communiqués of such chatbots as nothing more than computerized gobbledygook, we might unwittingly miss a chance to study firsthand the babytalk of an embryonic sentience, struggling abortively to awaken from its own phylum of oblivion.
Poetic Machines 05 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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