speechify

[ spee-chuh-fahy ]
/ ˈspi tʃəˌfaɪ /
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verb (used without object), speech·i·fied, speech·i·fy·ing.

to make a speech or speeches; harangue.

Origin of speechify

First recorded in 1715–25; speech + -ify

OTHER WORDS FROM speechify

speech·i·fi·ca·tion, noun speech·i·fi·er, noun

Words nearby speechify

speech pathology, speech recognition, speech sound, speech therapy, speech-reading, speechify, speechless, speechmaker, speechread, speechreading, speechway

Words related to speechifier

lecturer, speechmaker, announcer, rhetorician, mouthpiece, spokesperson, orator, elocutionist, declaimer, keynoter

Example sentences from the Web for speechifier

  • But Wilson was no arguer; no speechifier as he would have called it.

    Mary Barton |Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

British Dictionary definitions for speechifier

speechify
/ (ˈspiːtʃɪˌfaɪ) /

verb -fies, -fying or -fied (intr)

to make a speech or speeches
to talk pompously and boringly

Derived forms of speechify

speechification, noun speechifier, noun