'Palaver' definitions:
Definition of 'palaver'
(from WordNet)
noun
Flattery intended to persuade [syn: blandishment, cajolery, palaver]
noun
Loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" [syn: palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric]
verb
Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]
verb
Influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along" [syn: wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigle]
verb
Have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds
Definition of 'Palaver'
From: GCIDE
- Palaver \Pa*la"ver\, n. [Sp. palabra, or Pg. palavra, fr. L. parabola a comparison, a parable, LL., a word. See Parable.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery. [1913 Webster]
- 2. In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate. [1913 Webster]
- This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Palaver'
From: GCIDE
- Palaver \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. [1913 Webster]
- Palavering the little language for her benefit. --C. Bront['e] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'palaver'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddledeedee,
- 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