"speechful" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more speechful [comparative], most speechful [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English specheful, spekeful, equivalent to speech + -ful. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|specheful}} Middle English specheful, {{suf|en|speech|ful|pos=adjective}} speech + -ful Head templates: {{en-adj}} speechful (comparative more speechful, superlative most speechful)
  1. voluble; loquacious Categories (topical): Talking Translations (voluble, loquacious): puhelias (Finnish), beszédes (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-speechful-en-adj-CADtjMCm Disambiguation of Talking: 94 6 Categories (other): English adjectives suffixed with -ful, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English nouns suffixed with -ful Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 87 13 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 90 10 Disambiguation of English nouns suffixed with -ful: 76 24
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: speechfuls [plural]
Etymology: speech + -ful Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|speech|ful|pos=noun}} speech + -ful Head templates: {{en-noun}} speechful (plural speechfuls)
  1. The entire contents of a speech.
    Sense id: en-speechful-en-noun-fgh-AKdc
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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