(noun) a long parley usually between persons of different cultures or levels of sophistication / (noun) conference discussion / (noun) idle talk / (noun) misleading or beguiling speech / (verb) to talk profusely or idly / (verb) parley / (verb) to use palaver to; cajole
Ludwig has gone and gotten himself baptized, Hans told her three weeks ago. “A palaver,” he called it, and: He does it just to annoy me.