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单词 talkee-talkee
释义

talkee-talkeen.adj.

Brit. /ˈtɔːkɪˌtɔːki/, U.S. /ˈtɔkiˌtɔki/, /ˈtɑkiˌtɑki/, Caribbean English /ˈtaːkiˌtaːki/
Forms:

α. 1700s– talkee-talkee, 1700s– talky-talky, 1800s– talkie-talkie.

β. In senses A. 2 and B. 1800s– taki-taki, 1900s– takki-takki.

In senses A. 2 and B. also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: talk n., Jamaican Creole -ee.
Etymology: < either talk n. or talk v. + Jamaican Creole -ee (and equivalent elements in other English-based creole languages of the Caribbean), with reduplication. Compare later talky-talky n. and talky-talky adj., and also talkee n.1
A. n.
1. In (somewhat depreciative) representations of Afro-Caribbean speech: talk, speech; (usually spoken) communication. Obsolete.In quot. ?1740: written documentation.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > [noun]
speechc725
spellc888
tonguec897
spellingc1000
wordOE
mathelingOE
redec1275
sermonc1275
leeda1300
gale13..
speakc1300
speaking1303
ledenc1320
talea1325
parliamentc1325
winda1330
sermoningc1330
saying1340
melinga1375
talkingc1386
wordc1390
prolationa1393
carpinga1400
eloquencec1400
utteringc1400
language?c1450
reporturec1475
parleyc1490
locutionc1500
talk1539
discourse1545
report1548
tonguec1550
deliverance1553
oration1555
delivery1577
parling1582
parle1584
conveying1586
passage1598
perlocution1599
wording1604
bursta1616
ventilation1615
loquency1623
voicinga1626
verbocination1653
loquence1677
pronunciation1686
loquel1694
jawinga1731
talkee-talkee?1740
vocification1743
talkation1781
voicing1822
utterancy1827
voicing1831
the spoken word1832
outness1851
verbalization1851
voice1855
outgiving1865
stringing1886
praxis1950
?1740 Importance Jamaica to Great-Brit. 17 All Negroes must have written Tickets, which they call Talkee, Talkee, before they are suffer'd to pass.
1777 Statute 22 Me no understand his talky, talky.
1883 H. L. Cowen in Stories with a Vengeance 92/2 [He] say you go up to Reculber estate in de Saint 'Lizabeth mountain ob dis Jamaikee, and hab talkee talkee wid Araminta Diana, my ole nuss.
1907 R. Overton Decoyed across Seas xxxvi. 306 He joyfully paddled off to the Bonnie Dundee and delivered the ‘talkee-talkee’.
2. Any of various English-based pidgins or creoles spoken in the Caribbean, esp. the Afro-Caribbean lingua franca; spec. (usually in form Taki-Taki) the English-based creole language spoken in Suriname now more usually called Sranan or Sranan Tongo.Sometimes regarded as derogatory and now considered offensive.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > pidgins and creoles > [noun] > English-based
talkee-talkee1807
the mind > language > languages of the world > pidgins and creoles > [noun] > English-based > Taki-Taki
talkee-talkee1807
Suriname Negro-English1934
Sranan1957
Suriname Taki-Taki1967
1807 H. Bolingbroke Voy. Demerary xvi. 340 They have translated the bible and a book of hymns into the talkee-talkee, or negro language, of which they have also composed a grammar.
1856 J. H. Newman Callista i. 6 Not without parallel in the talkee-talkee of the West Indian negro.
1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xxvi. 474 Ningre Tongo or taki-taki is spoken by descendants of slaves along the coast.
1970 Language 46 409 Saramaccan..is only partly intelligible to speakers of Sranan or Taki-taki.
2007 NWIG 81 90Taki-taki’ is in fact a pejorative term for Sranan.
B. adj.
Designating any of various English-based pidgins or creoles, esp. the Afro-Caribbean lingua franca; spec. (usually in form Taki-Taki) designating the English-based creole language spoken in Suriname now more usually called Sranan or Sranan Tongo; of or relating to any of these.Sometimes regarded as derogatory and now considered offensive; cf. sense A. 2.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > pidgins and creoles > [adjective]
Mobilian1760
talkee-talkee1826
Sabir1867
Mobile1939
Krio1957
Sranan1957
Saramaccan1959
Sranan1960
Pitcairnese1964
Sranan Tongo1973
1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies (ed. 2) 85 (note) The governor of Trinidad..will only laugh at this playful sample of his incomparable talents in the talky-talky tongue.
1929 Man 29 125 The Negro ‘taki-taki’ dialect.
2010 K. Konadu Akan Diaspora in Americas 114 What the Herskovites referred to as ‘Taki Taki’ words among Africans in Suriname..include a significant number of Akan lexical items.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021).
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n.adj.?1740
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