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Another word for palaver

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Noun

  1. Incessant and usually inconsequential talk

      1. A wild, shaggy-haired ox (Bos grunniens) of the mountains of central Asia.
      2. A domesticated yak, used as a work animal or raised for meat and milk.
      1. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by relatively low density and viscosity, relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature, the ability to diffuse readily, and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container.
      2. A substance in the gaseous state.
      3. A gaseous fuel, such as natural gas.
      1. To talk idly or incessantly, as about trivial matters.
      2. Idle talk; chatter.
      1. Casual or trivial conversation.
      1. To talk or chatter idly or meaninglessly; babble or prate.
      2. To utter or express by chattering foolishly or babbling.
      3. Idle or meaningless chatter; babble.
      1. To talk idly and at length; chatter:
      1. To talk rapidly or unintelligibly.
      2. To utter rapidly or unintelligibly.
      3. Rapid or babbling talk.
      1. Casual conversation; small talk.
      2. Gossip.
      3. To engage in small talk or gossip.
      1. To talk rapidly, incessantly, and on trivial subjects; jabber.
      2. To utter a rapid series of short, inarticulate, speechlike sounds:
      3. To click quickly and repeatedly:
      1. To converse in an easy, familiar manner; talk lightly and casually.
      2. To participate in a synchronous exchange of remarks with one or more people over a computer network.
      3. An informal, light conversation.
      1. To chatter; babble.
      2. Idle chatter.
      3. A blabbermouth.
      1. To reveal (secret matters), especially through indiscreet or unreserved talk.
      2. To reveal secret matters indiscreetly.
      3. To chatter thoughtlessly or indiscreetly.
      1. To utter a meaningless confusion of words or sounds:
      2. To talk foolishly or idly; chatter:
      3. To make a continuous low, murmuring sound, as flowing water.
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Verb

  1. To talk volubly, persistently, and usually inconsequentially

      1. A wild, shaggy-haired ox (Bos grunniens) of the mountains of central Asia.
      2. A domesticated yak, used as a work animal or raised for meat and milk.
      1. Either of two bony or cartilaginous structures that in most vertebrates form the framework of the mouth and hold the teeth.
      2. The mandible or maxilla or the part of the face covering these bones.
      3. Any of various structures of invertebrates that have an analogous function to vertebrate jaws.
      1. The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by relatively low density and viscosity, relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature, the ability to diffuse readily, and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container.
      2. A substance in the gaseous state.
      3. A gaseous fuel, such as natural gas.
      1. To talk idly or incessantly, as about trivial matters.
      2. Idle talk; chatter.
      1. A lengthy or extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade.
      2. To talk or say (something) at length or extravagantly.
      1. Used other than as an idiom: see go,"Ž on.
      2. To continue in extent.
      3. To continue an action.
      1. Matter that is appended or added without a formal break.
      2. A derived term, often formed by the addition of an affix, that is included undefined at the end of a dictionary entry.
      1. To secure ratlines to (shrouds).
      1. To talk or chatter idly or meaninglessly; babble or prate.
      2. To utter or express by chattering foolishly or babbling.
      3. Idle or meaningless chatter; babble.
      1. To talk idly and at length; chatter:
      1. To talk rapidly or unintelligibly.
      2. To utter rapidly or unintelligibly.
      3. Rapid or babbling talk.
      1. To make an abrupt, sharp sound, as in the collision of two hard surfaces.
      2. To chatter thoughtlessly or at length.
      3. To cackle or cluck, as a hen.
      1. Casual conversation; small talk.
      2. Gossip.
      3. To engage in small talk or gossip.
      1. To talk rapidly, incessantly, and on trivial subjects; jabber.
      2. To utter a rapid series of short, inarticulate, speechlike sounds:
      3. To click quickly and repeatedly:
      1. To chatter; babble.
      2. Idle chatter.
      3. A blabbermouth.
      1. To utter a meaningless confusion of words or sounds:
      2. To talk foolishly or idly; chatter:
      3. To make a continuous low, murmuring sound, as flowing water.
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Another word for palaver

Noun
      1. The exchange of thoughts and feelings by means of speech or sign language:
      2. An instance of this:
      1. To utter a meaningless confusion of words or sounds:
      2. To talk foolishly or idly; chatter:
      3. To make a continuous low, murmuring sound, as flowing water.
      1. The faculty or act of speaking.
      2. The faculty or act of expressing or describing thoughts, feelings, or perceptions by the articulation of words.
      3. What is spoken or expressed, as in conversation; uttered or written words:
    See also:

    talk

    nonsense

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Sentence Examples

  • Hodgson, in a public palaver at Kumasi, announced that the Ashanti chiefs would have to pay the British government 4000 oz.

  • On the north-east coast many of the villages are tastefully kept, their whole area being clean swept, nicely sanded, and planted with ornamental shrubs, and have in their centre little square palaver places laid with flat stones, each with an erect stone pillar as a back-rest.

  • Then there was the usual palaver about what people voted for in 1975.

  • Themes include A haunting at the Castle and A Pirate Ship Palaver.

  • Businesses, of course, don't have this palaver to go through.

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