noun Talk that isn't really needed; chatter.
- 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.
— Justin Richards, Option Lock (1985)
- Some of the palavers could take half a day.
— V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River (1979)
noun An activity, or a lot of fuss, that leaves you feeling worn out.
- 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.
— , Life slows down’: the islander who swapped Shetland for living off-grid in a Norway forest (2021)
