See palaver in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1847, Emily Brontë, chapter III, in Wuthering Heights:",
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"ref": "1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:",
"text": "These remarks were received with a differing demonstration: some of the company declaring that if the Dutchman cared to come round and smoke a pipe they would be glad to see him—perhaps he'd show where the thumbscrews had been put on; others being strongly of the opinion that they didn't want any more advice—they had already had advice enough to turn a donkey's stomach. What they wanted was to put forth their might without any more palaver; to do something, or for some one; to go out somewhere and smash something, on the spot—why not?—that very night.",
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"ref": "1899, Stephen Crane, Active Service:",
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"ref": "1979, V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River:",
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"text": "What a palaver!",
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"text": "Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them.",
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"ref": "1988, Lord Grimond, House of Lords vol 492 col 695",
"text": "What's the good of going through all this palaver of giving very small sums to very obscure charities?"
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"ref": "2021 February 22, “Life slows down’: the islander who swapped Shetland for living off-grid in a Norway forest”, in Shetland News:",
"text": "We fill up the bathtub for a proper bath maybe once a month because it is such a palaver. We have a 150 litre pot and a 60 litre pot that we have to fill up and boil on the wood stove which takes hours.",
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"(informal) Disagreement."
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"ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 21:",
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"ref": "1860 April, Atlantic Monthly, volume 5, number 30:",
"text": "“That,” he rejoined, “is a way we Americans have. We cannot stop to palaver. What would become of our manifest destiny?”",
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"ref": "1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash:",
"text": "Dodd never spoke to his officers like a ruffian, nor yet palavered them.",
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"To flatter."
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"(transitive) To flatter."
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"ref": "1847, Emily Brontë, chapter III, in Wuthering Heights:",
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"ref": "1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:",
"text": "These remarks were received with a differing demonstration: some of the company declaring that if the Dutchman cared to come round and smoke a pipe they would be glad to see him—perhaps he'd show where the thumbscrews had been put on; others being strongly of the opinion that they didn't want any more advice—they had already had advice enough to turn a donkey's stomach. What they wanted was to put forth their might without any more palaver; to do something, or for some one; to go out somewhere and smash something, on the spot—why not?—that very night.",
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"ref": "1899, Stephen Crane, Active Service:",
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"ref": "1979, V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River:",
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"ref": "1985, Justin Richards, Option Lock, page 229:",
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"ref": "1988, Lord Grimond, House of Lords vol 492 col 695",
"text": "What's the good of going through all this palaver of giving very small sums to very obscure charities?"
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"ref": "2021 February 22, “Life slows down’: the islander who swapped Shetland for living off-grid in a Norway forest”, in Shetland News:",
"text": "We fill up the bathtub for a proper bath maybe once a month because it is such a palaver. We have a 150 litre pot and a 60 litre pot that we have to fill up and boil on the wood stove which takes hours.",
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"ref": "1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "unnecessary talk, chatter",
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"sense": "unnecessary talk, chatter",
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"word": "paláver"
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"word": "suainseán"
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"sense": "unnecessary talk, chatter",
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"sense": "unnecessary talk, chatter",
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"sense": "unnecessary talk, chatter",
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"ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 21:",
"text": "“Come, come, Captain Bildad; stop palavering,—away!” and with that, Peleg hurried him over the side, and both dropt into the boat.",
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"ref": "1860 April, Atlantic Monthly, volume 5, number 30:",
"text": "“That,” he rejoined, “is a way we Americans have. We cannot stop to palaver. What would become of our manifest destiny?”",
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"(intransitive) To discuss with much talk."
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"ref": "1863, Charles Reade, Hard Cash:",
"text": "Dodd never spoke to his officers like a ruffian, nor yet palavered them.",
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"To flatter."
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