单词 | palaverment |
释义 | > as lemmaspalaverment palaverment n. an instance of excessive speech or verbiage. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > verbosity multiplicationa1500 surplusage1534 verbosity1541 wordishness1657 wordiness1680 verboseness1695 verbiagea1721 verbage1742 palaverment1816 tootling1821 tootle1883 1816 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1851) II. iii. 66 Floundering its uncertain way through amongst the palaverments of law. 1845 R. S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall I. v. 42 People..would never have let him into their debt upon the faith of any of his own palaverments. 1914 E. A. Parry Law & Poor xv. 298 How any society of business men could palaver about it in any Palaverment for more than a week passes my comprehension. < as lemmas |
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