0 to give a speech, especially in a boring way or in a way that shows you think you are important --
The two gentlemen alternately speechified the judge and jury for several hours; after which the judge passed sentence on the culprit, and the two lawyers left the court-house.
A man always makes a fool of himself, speechifying: there's no excuse but being on the right side, so that you can ask a blessing on your humming and hawing.
That's what annoys me, to see men posing and letting themselves be written up and speechified over as fearless.
In a twinkling the floodgates of speechifying burst open; the debates touched every aspect of the question.
He started the thing, anyhow, and he ought to have the fun of speechifying to you.
The band plays all the time, an' folks sing an' speechify, an' ever'body laughs an' has a good time.
It is not surprising that they all wanted to talk and speechify.
She doesn't speechify about these things--she never speechifies to me, at least.
