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palaveringverbpresent participle of palaver to engage in casual or rambling conversationmothers palavering and drinking coffee while watching their children play babbling, blabbing, cackling, chaffering(British), chattering, chatting, chinning(slang), conversing, gabbing, gabbling, gassing, jabbering, jawing, kibitzing(also kibbitzing), nattering, pattering, prating, prattling, rapping, rattling, running on, schmoozing(or shmoozing), talking, twittering, visiting gossiping, tattlingdescanting, discussing, expatiatingyakking(also yacking), yammering, yapping blowing smoke, chewing the fat(also chewing the rag), shooting the breeze, talking a blue streak to get (someone) to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flatteryI let the salesclerk at the electronics store palaver me into a service contract that I didn't need blandishing, blarneying, cajoling, coaxing, soft-soaping, sweet-talking, wheedling adulating, flattering, overpraisingbuttering up, charming, massaging, wooingbegging, beseeching, importuning, urgingbeguiling, cozening, finagling, juggling, wangling, wilingenticing, luring, seducing, tempting bugging, harassing, nagging, pestering, teasingbrowbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cowing, intimidatingcoercing, compelling, constraining, demanding, forcing, making, obliging, requiring |