Word Meanings - PALAVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery. 2. In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate. This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers.

Additional info about word: PALAVER

1. Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery. 2. In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate. This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers. Carlyle.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PALAVER)

• Fawn upon
• Flatter
• wheedle
• cajole
• cringe
• palaver
• slaver

Related words: (words related to PALAVER)

• CAJOLERY
  A wheedling to delude; words used in cajoling; flattery. "Infamous cajoleries." Evelyn.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• CAJOLE
  To deceive with flattery or fair words; to wheedle. I am not about to cajole or flatter you into a reception of my views. F. W. Robertson. Syn. -- To flatter; wheedle; delude; coax; entrap. (more info) hence, to amuse with idle talk, to flatter,
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• FLATTERINGLY
  With flattery.
• CRINGER
  One who cringes.
• SLAVERY
  1. The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another. Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught! Sterne. I wish, from my soul, that the legislature of this
• CAJOLEMENT
  The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery. Coleridge.
• FLATTERING
  That flatters ; as, a flattering speech. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. Shak. A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. Goldsmith.
• PALAVERER
  One who palavers; a flatterer.
• SLAVERER
  A driveler; an idiot.
• PALAVER
  1. Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery. 2. In Africa, a parley with the natives; a talk; hence, a public conference and deliberation; a debate. This epoch of parliaments and eloquent palavers.
• CRINGELING
  One who cringes meanly; a fawner.
• WHEEDLE
  1. To entice by soft words; to cajole; to flatter; to coax. The unlucky art of wheedling fools. Dryden. And wheedle a world that loves him not. Tennyson. 2. To grain, or get away, by flattery. A deed of settlement of the best part of her estate,
• SLAVERING
  Drooling; defiling with saliva. -- Slav"er*ing*ly, adv.
• SLAVER
  1. A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship. 2. A person engaged in the purchase and sale of slaves; a slave merchant, or slave trader. The slaver's hand was on the latch, He seemed in haste to go. Longfellow.
• CRINGE
  To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn. When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad
• CAJOLER
  A flatterer; a wheedler.
• FLATTERER
  One who flatters. The most abject flaterers degenerate into the greatest tyrants. Addison.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• ANTISLAVERY
  Opposed to slavery. -- n.
• WHITE SLAVER
  A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
• SCRINGE
  To cringe.
• PROSLAVERY
  Favoring slavery. -- n.
• ENSLAVER
  One who enslaves. Swift.