Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A corrupt dialect.
  • noun Incessant chatter or talk.

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Examples

  • Rum game this yer Politics, Charlie, seems arf talkee-talkee and trap.

    Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

  • 'If that's your general line of talkee-talkee I don't wonder you don't want me to have no gun.'

    The Killer Stewart Edward White 1909

  • There is a good deal of talkee-talkee of the _Corinne_ kind in it: the heroine is an angelic Italian soubrette; the hero is one of the coxcombish heroes of French novels, who seem to have set themselves to confirm the most unjust ideas of their nation entertained in foreign climes; there is a

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • All was again peace and harmony in the little social gathering, and the pleasant talkee-talkee went on as before.

    Afoot in England 1881

  • We must have parties to meet him, and let him do the talkee-talkee lecturing business.

    A Dream of the North Sea James Runciman 1871

  • To persuade, we must back all our talkee-talkee by facts, and to get facts we must work and endure in patience.

    A Dream of the North Sea James Runciman 1871

  • I suppose preferring graphics before text would have nothing to do with the fact that today's Digital Native was taught to read using balanced literacy and sight words. talkee-talkee

    kitchen table math, the sequel 2008

  • I looked once or twice to Miss Donnehue, so as to be sure I was “getting the note” of the talkee-talkee; but I could see that she didn’t take it as a joke, at all.

    Carnacki, the Ghost Finder 2007

  • A little quiet talkee-talkee between you and me’ll soon put this small matter on a right footing.”

    Castle Richmond 2004

  • "The fellows at Brooke's had a talkee-talkee, and they'd twenty different stories.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

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