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

voluble, loquacious

• Finnish: puhelias (fi)
• Hungarian: beszédes (hu)

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).