Synonyms of the word

palaver

• n. (Africa) A village council meeting, a folkmoot.
• n. Talk, especially unnecessary talk, fuss.
• n. A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate, a moot.
• n. (informal) Disagreement.
• v. To discuss with much talk.

blab

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
• n. One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.

blabber

• v. To blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently.
• v. To blab; to let out a secret.
• v. (Britain, obsolete) To stick out one's tongue.
• n. A person who blabs; a tattler; a telltale.

blandishment

• n. Flattering speech or actions designed to persuade or influence.

blarney

• n. Mindless chatter.
• n. Ability to talk constantly.
• n. Persuasive flattery or kind speech; smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.
• v. To beguile with flattery.

bunk

• n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
• n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
• n. (military) A cot.
• n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
• n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
• v. To occupy a bunk.
• v. To provide a bunk.
• n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
• adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
• v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
• v. (dated) To expel from a school.

cajole

• v. (transitive and intransitive) To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially…

cajolery

• n. cajolement.

chatter

• n. Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
• n. The sound of talking.
• n. The sound made by a magpie.
• n. An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
• n. In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge…
• v. (intransitive) To talk idly.
• v. (intransitive) Of teeth, machinery, etc, to make a noise by rapid collisions.
• v. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
• n. one who chats.
• n. (Internet) a user of chat rooms.

clack

• n. An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway…
• n. Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
• n. Clatter; prattle.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
• v. To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
• v. (Britain) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.

coax

• v. (obsolete) To fondle, kid, pet, tease.
• v. To wheedle, persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something.
• v. To carefully manipulate into a particular desired state, situation or position.
• n. (obsolete) A simpleton; a dupe.
• n. Shortened form of coaxial cable.

flattery

• n. (uncountable) Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
• n. (countable) An instance of excessive praise.

gabble

• v. To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
• v. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
• n. Confused or unintelligible speech.

gibber

• n. Gibberish, unintelligible speech.
• v. To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.
• n. A boulder, a stone.
• n. A balky horse.

hokum

• n. Meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.

inveigle

• v. (transitive) To convert, convince, or win over with flattery or wiles.
• v. (transitive) To obtain through guile or cunning.

maunder

• v. To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.
• v. To wander or walk aimlessly.
• n. (obsolete) A beggar.

meaninglessness

• n. The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.
• n. Anything that is meaningless.

mouth

• n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
• n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
• n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
• n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
• n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
• n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
• n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
• n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
• n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
• v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
• v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
• v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
• v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
• v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
• v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

nonsense

• n. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
• n. An untrue statement.
• n. Something foolish.
• n. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by…
• n. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
• v. To make nonsense of.
• v. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
• v. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time.
• adj. (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become…
• adj. nonsensical.

nonsensicality

• n. (uncountable) The state or condition of being nonsensical.
• n. (countable) A nonsensical belief, remark, etc.

parley

• n. A conference, especially one between enemies.
• v. (intransitive) To have a discussion, especially one between enemies.

persuade

• v. (transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through…
• v. (transitive, now rare, dialectal) To urge, plead; to try to convince (someone to do something).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To convince of by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection,…

piffle

• n. Nonsense, foolish talk.
• v. To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.
• v. To waste, to fritter away.
• v. (dated) To be squeamish or delicate.

prate

• n. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.
• v. To talk much and to little purpose; to chatter; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.

prattle

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.
• n. Silly, childish, talk; babble.

rhetoric

• adj. Synonym of rhetorical.
• n. The art of using language, especially public speaking, as a means to persuade.
• n. Meaningless language with an exaggerated style intended to impress.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

sweet-talk

• v. To flatter.
• v. To persuade using flattery.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

tattle

• v. (intransitive, pejorative) To report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip…
• v. (intransitive) To chatter.
• n. A tattletale.
• n. Gossip; idle talk.

tittle-tattle

• n. petty, idle gossip.
• n. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip.
• v. to engage in such gossip.
• v. to spread gossip.

twaddle

• n. (uncountable) Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.
• n. (countable) One who twaddles; a twaddler.
• v. To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

• v. To speak or to use words to express.
• v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

wheedle

• v. To cajole or attempt to persuade by flattery.
• v. To obtain by flattery, guile, or trickery.