speechify

• Verbo que significa pronunciar un discurso o hablar de manera grandilocuente, con tono oratorio, a menudo de forma afectada o pomposa.

An obsolete verb meaning to make a speech or to speak in a pompous or oratorical manner.

1. Deliver a formal speechC1formal

   To make a speech or to speak in a formal, often pompous or lengthy manner.

   Arengar (discurso formal)

   • The politician speechified for over an hour about the new policy.
   • He tends to speechify at family gatherings, much to everyone's annoyance.
   • The professor speechified on the importance of classical education.

   Sinónimosdeclaimdiscourseexpatiateharanguehold forthlectureoratepontificatesermonizespout

2. Hold forth or harangueC1informal

   To speak at length in a way that is considered tedious or overly rhetorical.

   Perorar

   • My uncle loves to speechify about the good old days.
   • She speechified to the committee about the need for reform.
   • Stop speechifying and get to the point.

   Sinónimosdeclaimharanguelectureoratepontificatepreachspout