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What (who) is double-talk - definition

ADDING INVENTED WORDS INTO NORMAL SPEECH

double-talk

also double talk

If you refer to something someone says as double-talk, you mean that it can deceive people or is difficult to understand because it has two possible meanings.

N-UNCOUNT

double talk

US TELEVISION PROGRAM

Double talk; Double Talk (game show)

see double-talk

ntalk

STANDARD UNIX UTILITY

Unix talk; Talk (Unix); Ytalk; Ntalk; UNIX talk; Phone (software)

<chat> ("new talk") An update of the Unix "talk" program, old versions of "talk" being referred to as "old talk". New talk and old talk are generally incompatible, and attempts to get them to communicate result in entirely unhelpful error messages. On most modern Unix systems, the program "talk" is new talk, with some SunOS versions being a notable and annoying exception to this. (1997-09-11)

Wikipedia

Double-talk

Double-talk is a form of speech in which inappropriate, invented, or nonsense words are interpolated into normal speech to give the appearance of knowledge, and thus confuse or amuse the audience. Vaudevillian Cliff Nazarro, for instance, would say, "Make yourself invidded, with the keforth and the grepps. Be great with the floom and the sonic keptefin."

Comedians who have used this as part of their act include Al Kelly, Danny Kaye, Gary Owens, Irwin Corey, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Lewis, Sid Caesar, Stanley Unwin, Reggie Watts, Vanessa Bayer and Cantinflas.

It has also been used in films, for example Charlie Chaplin's character in The Great Dictator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-talk

Examples of use of double-talk

1. "He‘s not a professor of double talk as other candidates are.

2. Schwarzenegger‘s Democratic opponent, Phil Angelides, accused the governor of environmental double–talk.

3. Jean–Fran çois Cop é, budget minister, on Tuesday accused the Socialist party of "permanent double talk" on public finances.

4. A whole lexicon of weaselly double talk exists for such moments, headed by Max Beerbohm‘s infamous "Darling!

5. "I don‘t want to see any more double talk and lies, like excuses for Iraq," said Fredericka Fisher, an Obama supporter who is unemployed.