palaver

(Africa, countable, uncountable)A village council meeting.

(Canada, US, archaic, countable, uncountable)(Canada, US, archaic in Britain) Talk, especially unnecessary talk; chatter. [from 18th c.]

Đồng nghĩa: hot air, babble, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blabbing, blather, blathering, chatter, chinwag, chit-chat, claver, clepe, gabble, hot air, mardle, natter, palaver, prate, prattle, scuttlebutt, small talk, tattle, twaddle, waffle, yackety-yak, yap, yatter

(British, countable, uncountable)Mentally draining activity, either physical or fuss.

What a palaver!

What's the good of going through all this palaver of giving very small sums to very obscure charities?

Đồng nghĩa: ado, bother, ado, argy-bargy, bangarang, bobbery, brouhaha, bunfight, bustle, bust-up, chaos, ferment, clamour, clatter, commotion, disruption, disturbance, flap, foofaraw, fracas, furor, fuss, hobbleshaw, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, kerfuffle, mayhem, merry hell, outcry, palaver, pandemonium, pother, quarrel, riot, rowdydow, ruckus, rumpus, shemozzle, shindy, splatterdash, stir, stooshie, three-ring circus, to-do, tomfoolery, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest, uproar, upstir, carry-on, circus act, palaver, riddle me ree, rigmarole, song and dance

(countable, uncountable)A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate; a moot.

(countable, informal, uncountable)Disagreement.

I have no palaver with him.

Đồng nghĩa: conflict, quarrel, argument, argy-bargy, altercation, contention, barney, bawl out, blue, bobbery, brawl, clash, conflict, controversy, debate, difference, ding-dong, disagreement, discordance, disharmony, disputation, dispute, dissonance, disunion, dustup, face-off, falling out, feud, fight, flite, hassle, issue, palaver, quarrel, quibble, row, spat, squabble, tangle, threap, tiff, wrangle

(countable, uncountable)Talk intended to deceive. [from 19th c.]

Đồng nghĩa: doublespeak, double talk

(intransitive)To discuss with much talk.

Đồng nghĩa: jabber, rabbit, yak, babble, bat the breeze, blab, blabber, blather, carp, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, chit-chat, chunner, clack, claver, clepe, drivel, jabber, gabble, gibber, go on, maunder, natter, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, rabbit, rabbit on, ramble, shoot the breeze, shoot the bull, shoot the shit, smatter, tattle, twaddle, waffle, wibble, witter, yabber, yack, yatter, yap

(transitive)To flatter.

Đồng nghĩa: jolly, puff, brush up to, collogue, flatter, flatterize, glaver, gloze, jolly, lay it on thick, make fair weather, palaver, preen, puff, soothe, speak well of, stroke, tickle the ear