Also 8 speechefyer, 9 speechifyer. [f. SPEECHIFY v.] One who speechifies or delivers speeches; one given to, or having some aptitude for, public speaking.
1778. Foote, Trip Calais, I. Wks. 1799, II. 331. The man is … a pretty good speechefyer.
1794. C. Pigott, Female Jockey Club, 82. As an orator his parliamentary speeches prove him an inimitable, PRACTICAL speechifier.
1819. Monthly Mag., XLVIII. 307. He was no speechifier; but preferred talking over such business in a walk.
1837. Whittock, Bk. Trades (1842), 322. (Mariner), Without which … our overweening public speechifyers … would lose at least one topic of oratorical lamentation.
1886. W. J. Tucker, E. Europe, 259. In all classes amongst us you will find a formidable number of professional chatterboxes and speechifiers.
