Usually means: Talking unnecessarily at length; chattering.
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  1. palavering: Merriam-Webster
  2. palavering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. palavering: Vocabulary.com
  4. palavering: Wordnik
  5. palavering: Wiktionary
  6. Palavering, palavering: Dictionary.com
  7. Palavering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Palavering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. palavering: FreeDictionary.org
  10. palavering: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. palavering: Legal dictionary

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  1. palavering: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. palavering: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See palaver as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (palaver)

noun:  (Africa) A village council meeting.
noun:  (Canada, US, archaic in Britain) Talk, especially unnecessary talk; chatter. [from 18th c.]
noun:  (British) Mentally draining activity, either physical or fuss.
noun:  A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate; a moot.
noun:  (informal) Disagreement.
noun:  Talk intended to deceive. [from 19th c.]
verb:  (intransitive) To discuss with much talk.
verb:  (transitive) To flatter.
▸ Also see palaver


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