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Palaver
| Palaver Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Palaver?
[n] loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric"
[n] flattery intended to persuade
[v] have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds
[v] influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"
[v] speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Synonyms | Synonyms for Palaver: blab |
blabber |
blandishment |
blarney |
cajole |
cajolery |
chatter |
clack |
coax |
empty talk |
empty words |
gabble |
gibber |
hot air |
inveigle |
maunder |
piffle |
prate |
prattle |
rhetoric |
sweet-talk |
tattle |
tittle-tattle |
twaddle |
wheedle
Related Terms | Find terms related to Palaver: absurdity |
accents |
adulate |
adulation |
advise with |
affair |
amphigory |
audience |
babble |
babblement |
balderdash |
bargain |
bargaining |
bargaining session |
bavardage |
beslobber |
beslubber |
bibble-babble |
blab |
blabber |
blah-blah |
blandish |
blandishment |
blarney |
blather |
blether |
blethers |
bombast |
bother |
bull session |
bunkum |
business |
cackle |
cajole |
cajolement |
cajolery |
call in |
cant |
caquet |
caqueterie |
chat |
chatter |
chinfest |
chitter-chatter |
clack |
claptrap |
clatter |
collogue |
colloquium |
colloquy |
comment |
compare notes |
compliment |
conceit |
concern |
conclave |
confab |
confabulate |
confabulation |
confer |
confer with |
conference |
confrontation |
congress |
consult |
consult with |
consultation |
convention |
conversation |
converse |
council |
council fire |
council of war |
counsel |
deliberate |
dialogue |
dictionary |
discourse |
discuss |
discuss with |
discussion |
dither |
double-talk |
drivel |
drool |
duologue |
elocution |
exchange observations |
exchange of views |
exchange views |
eyeball-to-eyeball encounter |
eyewash |
fair words |
fawn upon |
fawning |
fiddledeedee |
fiddle-faddle |
flatter |
flattery |
flummery |
folderol |
fudge |
fustian |
gab |
gabble |
galimatias |
gammon |
gas |
get together |
get-together |
gibber |
gibberish |
gibble-gabble |
go on |
gobbledygook |
gossip |
grease |
guff |
gush |
have conversations |
haver |
high-level talk |
hocus-pocus |
hold conference |
honeyed phrases |
honeyed words |
hot air |
huddle |
humbug |
idle talk |
incense |
interchange of views |
interview |
jabber |
jargon |
jaw |
jawing |
language |
lexicon |
lookout |
make fair weather |
meet |
meeting |
mere talk |
mumbo jumbo |
narrishkeit |
natter |
negotiate |
negotiations |
news conference |
niaiserie |
nonsense |
nonsense talk |
nuisance |
occasions |
oil |
oil the tongue |
oral communication |
pack of nonsense |
palavering |
parley |
parole |
patter |
performance |
pour forth |
pourparler |
powwow |
praise |
prate |
prating |
prattle |
prattling |
press conference |
pretty lies |
prittle-prattle |
procedure |
put heads together |
question-and-answer session |
ramble on |
rant |
rap session |
rapping |
rattle |
rattle on |
reason with |
red tape |
reel off |
refer to |
rigamarole |
rigmarole |
rodomontade |
round table |
rubbish |
run on |
seance |
seminar |
session |
shoot the breeze |
sit down together |
sit down with |
sitting |
skimble-skamble |
slobber over |
small talk |
soap |
soft soap |
song and dance |
speaking |
speech |
spout |
spout off |
stuff and nonsense |
stultiloquence |
summit |
summit conference |
summitry |
sweet nothings |
sweet talk |
sweet words |
sycophancy |
take counsel |
take up with |
talk |
talk away |
talk nonsense |
talk on |
talk over |
talkee-talkee |
talkfest |
talking |
tittle-tattle |
to-do |
trash |
trialogue |
trumpery |
twaddle |
twattle |
twiddle-twaddle |
vaporing |
vocabulary |
waffle |
waffling |
wheedle |
wheedling |
words |
yak |
yakkety-yak |
yakking
See Also | babble |
blather |
blether |
blither |
browbeat |
bully |
flattery |
hokum |
meaninglessness |
mouth |
nonsense |
nonsensicality |
parley |
persuade |
smatter |
soft-soap |
speak |
swagger |
sway |
talk |
utter |
verbalise |
verbalize
Palaver In Webster's Dictionary
\Pa*la"ver\, n. [Sp. palabra, or Pg. palavra, fr. L.
parabola a comparison, a parable, LL., a word. See
{Parable}.]
1. Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk
intended to deceive; flattery.
2. In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a
public conference and deliberation; a debate.
This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers.
--Carlyle.
\Pa*la"ver\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Palavered}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Palavering}.]
To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or
deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver
artfully.
Palavering the little language for her benefit. --C.
Bront?
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