speechful meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

speechful

adj

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

voluble; loquacious

He was never speechful, and grew more word-shy with years.
O they were speechful faces, gazing insistent […]1914, Thomas Hardy, "In Front of the Landscape":

noun

Etymology From speech + -ful.

The entire contents of a speech.

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:
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: