palaver

palaver
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • Palaver — Sn std. stil. (19. Jh.) Entlehnung. Entlehnt aus ne. palaver langwierige, wortreiche Verhandlungen; langes Gerede , dieses aus port. palavreado m. und port. palavra f. Wort , aus l. parabolē f. Gleichnis, Parabel , aus gr. parabolḗ f. (eigentlich …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Palaver — Palaver: Lat. parabola »Gleichnisrede; Erzählung, Bericht« (vgl. ↑ Parabel) gelangte ins Port. als palavra »Unterredung, Erzählung« (heute: »Wort«). Portugiesische Händler brachten das Wort an die afrikanische Küste und verwendeten es speziell… …   Das Herkunftswörterbuch

  • 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 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Palāver — (engl., vom portug. palavra, »Wort, Sprache«), Bezeichnung für die Zusammenkünfte vor allem dee westafrikanischen Völkerstämme (im O. gebraucht man das Wort Schauri), um unter Vorsitz der Häuptlinge gemeinsame Angelegenheiten, Kriegszüge,… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Palaver — Palāver (vom portug. palāvra, »Sprache«), feierliche Unterhandlung mit afrik. Eingeborenen …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • palaver — index confer (consult), conference, council (assembly), speak, speech Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …   Law dictionary

  • palaver — (n.) 1733 (implied in palavering), talk, conference, discussion, sailors slang, from Port. palavra word, speech, talk, traders term for negotiating with the natives in West Africa, metathesis of L.L. parabola speech, discourse, from L. parabola… …   Etymology dictionary

  • palaver — informal ► NOUN 1) prolonged and tedious fuss or discussion. 2) dated a parley or improvised conference between two sides. ► VERB ▪ talk unnecessarily at length. ORIGIN Portuguese palavra word , from Latin parabola comparison …   English terms dictionary

  • palaver — [pə lav′ər] n. [Port palavra, a word, speech < LL(Ec) parabola,PARABLE] 1. a conference or discussion, as orig. between African natives and European explorers or traders 2. talk; esp., idle chatter 3. flattery; cajolery vi. 1. to talk, esp.… …   English World dictionary

  • Palaver — Der Begriff Palaver (früher: Palaber) bezeichnet ein langwieriges und häufig eher oberflächliches Gespräch.[1][2] Im Deutschen ist der Begriff im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch daher eher negativ belegt. In ethnologischen Untersuchungen anderer… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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