A fork of Rural Dictionary
Like sotto voce (commenting softly so that the third-person subject of the comment cannot hear the comment), but spoken loudly with the intention that the third-person subject will hear that he is being spoken about. A reversal of sotto voce: sotto-sotto intended to mean a loud voice.
Person 1 speaking to person 2 with person 3 in ear-shot (the subject of the remark): In sotto-sotto voce: "Someone doesn't know their place!"
An aside, like sotto voce, but spoken loudly enough that the person who is the subject can hear it, unlike sotto voce.
He spoke to them about me, but in a faux sotto voce for me to overhear: "Somebody doesn't know their place."