I. |pärlē|vü noun
( -s )
Etymology: French parlez-vous do you speak (in parlez-vous français? do you speak French?)
1. : the French language
no words to spell, no sums to do … and no parley-voo — J.R.Lowell
2. usually capitalized : frenchman
hardy British tars who had pity on a poor Parley-voo — W.S.Gilbert
II. intransitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: French parlez-vous
: talk ; especially : to speak French or another language besides English
nice to stop and parley-voo a second — Sinclair Lewis