PALAVER meaning: Lengthy, unnecessary discussion or fuss

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word palaver:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

palaver: Merriam-Webster.com
palaver: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
palaver: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
palaver: Collins English Dictionary
palaver: Vocabulary.com
Palaver, palaver: Wordnik
palaver: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
palaver: Wiktionary
palaver: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
palaver: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
palaver: Infoplease Dictionary
Palaver, palaver: Dictionary.com
palaver: Online Etymology Dictionary
Palaver: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Palaver: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
palaver: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
palaver: Rhymezone
Palaver: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
palaver: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
palaver: Free Dictionary
palaver: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
palaver: Mnemonic Dictionary
palaver: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

palaver: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

palaver: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

palaver: A Word A Day

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

palaver, palaver: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
palaver: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
palaver: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (Africa) A village council meeting.
▸ noun:  (Canada, US, archaic in Britain) Talk, especially unnecessary talk; chatter. [from 18th c.]
▸ noun:  (British) Mentally-draining activity, either physical or fuss.
▸ noun:  A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate; a moot.
▸ noun:  (informal) Disagreement.
▸ noun:  Talk intended to deceive. [from 19th c.]
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To discuss with much talk.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To flatter.

Opposite:

concise, succinct, brief, point

Types:

chatter, gossip, prattle, blather, twaddle, more...

Phrases:

palaver sauce, more...

Adjectives:

long, much, great, big, grand, little, usual, further, endless, short, national

Colors:

cerulean, chartreuse, mauve, vermilion, ochre, more...

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