palaver — OET

palaver

noun

what was all that palaver about?:

fuss, fuss and bother, bother, commotion, trouble, rigmarole, folderol, ado;

informal song and dance, performance, to-do, carry-on, carrying-on, kerfuffle, hoo-ha, hullabaloo, ballyhoo, business, pantomime, hoopla;

New Zealand, informal bobsy-die.

verb

don't stand there palavering all day:

chatter, gossip, prattle, prate, babble, blather, blether, blither, maunder, gabble, jabber, tittle-tattle;

Scottish, & Irish slabber;

informal chit-chat, jaw, gas, gab, yak, yackety-yak, yabber, yatter;

British, informal natter, rabbit, witter, chunter, waffle, chinwag;

archaic twaddle, clack.

palaver Oxford Dictionary of English