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speechful en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

From Middle English specheful, spekeful, equivalent to speech + -ful.

Meanings

1. voluble; loquacious
   • He was never speechful, and grew more word-shy with years.
   • O they were speechful faces, gazing insistent […] 1914, Thomas Hardy, "In Front of the Landscape":

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Deriveds

speechfulness

Translations (2)

fi puhelias (voluble, loquacious) · hu beszédes (voluble, loquacious)

speechful en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From speech + -ful.

Meanings

1. The entire contents of a speech.
   • Or again, the Queen delivers a speechful of Gilbert's Fun-liners: "You never put gas pipes between your lips, / Or go to sea in secretary-ships. /. . ./ Or hang a picture in a frame of mind." 1996, Jane W. Stedman, W.S. Gilbert: A Classic Victorian and His Theatre, page 57:
   • 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). 2006, Derek Fewster, Visions of Past Glory:

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