Palaver

Noun

 * 1)  A village council meeting.
 * 2) Talk, especially unnecessary talk, fuss.
 * 3) A meeting at which there is much talk.
 * 4)  Disagreement
 * I have no palaver with him.

Quotations

 * 1799, Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior of Africa:
 * Here we remained four days, on account of a palaver which was held on the following occasion.
 * 1899, Stephen Crane, Active Service:
 * Knowing full well the right time and the wrong time for a palaver of regret and disavowal, this battalion struggled in the desperation of despair.
 * 1985, Justin Richards, Option Lock, p 229:
 * Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them.

Verb

 * 1) To discuss with much talk.
 * 2) * 1860, Atlantic Monthly, vol. 5, no. 30 (April),
 * “That,” he rejoined, “is a way we Americans have. We cannot stop to palaver. What would become of our manifest destiny?”

Adjectives for Palaver
shameless; windy.

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

Etymology
Originally nautical slang, from palavra:, from  parabola:

Noun

 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German: Palaver
 * Hungarian: paláver
 * Italian: fam. storie
 * Russian: пустая болтовня, праздная болтовня


 * Danish:
 * Finnish:


 * French: palabre
 * German: Palaver
 * Russian: долгие переговоры

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:chatter

Etymology
From palaver:.