speechful
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English specheful, spekeful, equivalent to speech + -ful.
Adjective
speechful (comparative more speechful, superlative most speechful)
- voluble; loquacious
- He was never speechful, and grew more word-shy with years.
- 1914, Thomas Hardy, "In Front of the Landscape"
- O they were speechful faces, gazing insistent […]
Translations
voluble, loquacious
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Etymology 2
speech + -ful
Noun
speechful (plural speechfuls)
- The entire contents of a speech.
- 1996, Jane W. Stedman, W.S. Gilbert: A Classic Victorian and His Theatre, page 57:
- Or again, the Queen delivers a speechful of Gilbert's Fun-liners: 'You never put gas pipes between your lips,
- 2006, Derek Fewster, Visions of Past Glory:
- The Kalevala was only once given a whole speechful of attention ( 1 886), while the memorial status of the home and municipality of Elias Lonnrot was presented twice (1883 & 1885).
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