talkee-talkee
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A creole, especially the Anglo-Dutch language spoken in Demerara and elsewhere in what is now Guyana and Suriname.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "The talkee-talkee of a North-American Indian, and the song of Deborah, might each have stood as the model."
- "It must not be understood that homosexuality is confined to women. Relationships of this type exist also among men, and in taki-taki are to be found words which are specific designations for male homosexuals, who are termed hantimąn, or awɛge."
- "Surinam (Dutch Guiana)[…]Dutch, English, Javanese, "talkie-talkie"."
- "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."
Etymology
Reduplicated diminutive talk + -ee. Compare Dutch takitaki (“pejorative term for Sranan Tongo”), Sranan Tongo takitaki (“to jabber, to chatter; chatter, idle talk”).
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
Taki-taki (alternative)
talkie-talkie (alternative)