1. palaver - Noun
2. palaver - Verb
Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.
In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate.
To make palaver with, or to; to used palaver;to talk idly or deceitfully; to employ flattery; to cajole; as, to palaver artfully.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you. James Joyce
He palavered her into going along Source: Internet
mere rhetoric Source: Internet
And Kathy isn’t the only comedian to comment on the palaver, with Little Britain star Matt Lucas sharing a satirical video in which he impersonated the Prime Minister. Source: Internet
Amid the recurrent palaver about Australia needing a high-speed rail service, we lose sight of the fact that our conventional railway services are still operating to 19th-century standards. Source: Internet
In his 1934 pageant play The Rock, Eliot distances himself from Fascist movements of the thirties by caricaturing Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts, who 'firmly refuse/ To descend to palaver with anthropoid Jews'. Source: Internet