double talk

alternative double-talk · alternative doubletalk

1. uncountableDoublespeak.

   "Frammis on the Antispode": The doubletalk heading this paragraph takes the sting out of Mr. Ruark's comment, even if his gay colored foulard Sinatra bow tie didn't contradict his comment[.]

   1947, Men's Wear, volume 114, page 90, column 1

2. uncountableLies, especially in a formal political statement.
3. uncountablecomedySpeech which combines English (or some other language) and native-sounding gibberish for humorous effect.

   [Sid] Caesar's vaudeville format included burlesques—in the nineteenth-century meaning of parody—featuring silent-film and film noir send-ups; Italian opera produced in Caesar's ad-libbed, faux-Italian double-talk;[…]

   2014, Rick DesRochers, The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 15

4. uncountableA simple phonetic code with a regular infix that makes meaningful speech sound unintelligible.
5. uncountablecommunicationsA situation when two people talk at the same time, causing overlapping audio signals.

   Synonyms: doublespeak, double Dutch, gibberish, jibber-jabber, nonsense