speechify

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To give a speech

   To give a speech; to hold forth; (now especially) to pronounce pompously or at length.

   • Caleb was a powerful man and knew little of any fear except the fear of hurting others and the fear of having to speechify.
   • He never missed a chance of speechifying in public.
   • The home minister, Admiral Suetsugu, speechified grandly of a Japanese eminent domain beyond the seas, of a “moral purification drive” in the home islands.
2. 2

   To make speeches to (someone)

   To make speeches to (someone); to address in a speech.

   • They take their little enjoyments on little means and with little things and don't let solemn big-wigs stare them out of countenance or speechify them dull.

The neighborhood

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