speechful

comparative more speechful · superlative most speechful

1. voluble; loquacious

   He was never speechful, and grew more word-shy with years.

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   O they were speechful faces, gazing insistent […]

   1914, Thomas Hardy, "In Front of the Landscape"

plural speechfuls

1. The entire contents of a speech.

   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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   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