palaver

Speech parts

1. palaver - Noun

2. palaver - Verb

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

hot air blarney maunder clack rhetoric bother coax chatter blabber prate cajole tittle-tattle blab tattle twaddle
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Antonyms

answer delight amusement confuse nonsense diction
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Hypernyms

parley speak mouth talk persuade nonsense

Hyponyms

babble bully swagger blether browbeat smatter

Phrases with the word

nanti palaver

Derivatives

palavered palavering

Examples

The 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

Close letter words and terms

Palaungic palava sauce Palavaram palaver hut palaver sauce Palaveram