speechifier

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Even at his most inspiring, he was never a firebrand speechifier.

From Slate • Nov. 20, 2020

Postmaster General Farley, the Administration's routine banqueteer and speechifier, took the assignment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Actually, the poet and speechifier had been in him from boyhood: he liked to erect a platform in the barn and electrify himself with his own sermons.

From Time Magazine Archive

And now, Rudolph, let me advise you never to be a speechifier.

From An Old Story of My Farming Days Vol. II (of III). (Ut Mine Stromtid) by Reuter, Fritz

Spout′er, one who, or that which, spouts: a speechifier: a South Sea whale, a skilful whaler; Spout′-hole, an orifice for discharging a liquid, a whale's spiracle.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various