palaver
IPA: pʌɫˈeɪvɝ
noun
- (Africa) A village council meeting.
- (North America, archaic British) Talk, especially unnecessary talk; chatter. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
- (Britain) Mentally-draining activity, either physical or fuss.
- A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate; a moot.
- (informal) Disagreement.
- Talk intended to deceive. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
verb
- (intransitive) To discuss with much talk.
- (transitive) To flatter.
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Examples of "palaver" in Sentences
- He is talking palaver.
- This is not a place for palaver.
- I mean, look at all that palaver in Greece.
- Palaver sauces contain meat and fish as well.
- We can go through the palaver, but it will be deleted.
- Roland and the man in black hold palaver in a Golgotha.
- They have a short palaver, followed by a brief skirmish.
- Then we had to do it again, because it was a right palaver.
- The portal sites are trying to grab a share of the campaign palaver.
- "I go to the river to call a palaver of all free men," said Muchini;
- And the whole Mr/Ms etc palaver is yet another bonus of having a PhD.
- He is an expert in the palaver and other indigenous forms of African democracy.
- Hereupon the kafir put her into confinement, and called a palaver upon the bushreen's conduct.
- The Serawoolli thereupon called a palaver (or in European terms, brought an action) to recover damages for the loss of his beast, on which he set a high value.
- Mandingo master can neither deprive his slave of life, nor sell him to a stranger, without first calling a palaver on his conduct, or in other words, bringing him to a public trial.
- I was told, however, that the Mandingo master can neither deprive his slave of life, nor sell him to a stranger, without first calling a palaver on his conduct, or in other words, bringing him to
- As no palaver is ever conducted without profuse libations, raw palm-spirit, distilled by themselves, was passed round in cocoa-nut shell-cups, and I was expected to keep pace – no slow one – with their drinking.
- With all due respect, this palaver from the congressional representative is an example of the "red herrings", flawed reasoning and misguided focus prevalent within the entire debate about Health Insurance Reform.
- In the world of Animal Farm, most speechifying and public palaver is bullshit and instigated lying, and though many characters are good-hearted and mean well, they can be frightened into closing their eyes to what's really going on.
- Now no man may call a palaver of all small chiefs unless he notifies the government of his intention, for the government is jealous of self-appointed parliaments, for when men meet together in public conference, however innocent may be its first cause, talk invariably drifts to war, just as when they assemble and talk in private it drifts womanward.