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Grammar : Noun
Spell : puh-lav-er, ‐lah-ver
Phonetic Transcription : pəˈlæv ər, ‐ˈlɑ vər

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Définition of palaver

Origin :
  • 1733 (implied in palavering), "talk, conference, discussion," sailors' slang, from Portuguese palavra "word, speech, talk," traders' term for "negotiating with the natives" in West Africa, metathesis of Late Latin parabola "speech, discourse," from Latin parabola "comparison" (see parable). Meaning "idle talk" first recorded 1748. The verb is 1733, from the noun. Related: Palavering.
  • noun empty talk
Example sentences :
  • The minute they started their drillin' an' palaver, they ought to 'a' been stopped.
  • Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
  • Meantime the palaver inside Jim's house went on in the presence of the girl.
  • Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
  • Oh, for pity's sake, woman, let me through without any palaver!
  • Extract from : « Miss Pat at School » by Pemberton Ginther
  • I'll palaver to 'em, and tell 'em we just come to pay 'em a visit.
  • Extract from : « The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch » by Laura Lee Hope
  • So the governor is coming down here to have a palaver with us.'
  • Extract from : « Tom Gerrard » by Louis Becke
  • With this arrangement all agreed; for surely here was a palaver not to be feared.
  • Extract from : « Bones » by Edgar Wallace
  • So we come out to palaver, an' then they won't let us go back in the ship.
  • Extract from : « A Transmutation of Muddles » by Horace Brown Fyfe
  • But the end of the palaver did not confirm this supposition.
  • Extract from : « The Camp in the Snow » by William Murray Graydon
  • We understand one another without any palaver, don't we, old fellow?
  • Extract from : « Little Men » by Louisa May Alcott
  • In palaver thereon I managed to get local fishing-craft exempted.
  • Extract from : « Pan-Islam » by George Wyman Bury

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