speechful

English

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

speechful (comparative more speechful, superlative most speechful)

  1. 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

Etymology 2

speech +‎ -ful

Noun

speechful (plural speechfuls)

  1. 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, / Or go to sea in secretary-ships. /. . ./ Or hang a picture in a frame of mind."
    • 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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