Antonyms for palaver

Grammar : Noun

Spell : puh-lav-er, ‐lah-ver

Phonetic Transcription : pəˈlæv ər, ‐ˈlɑ vər

Definition 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

Synonyms for palaver

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