speechletn.
/ˈspiːtʃlɪt/ A short speech.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > short
parciloquy1656
oratiuncle1832
speechling1880
speechlet1881
1881 Daily News 28 Nov. 3/5 He speaks in the fashion—I don't know whether I should not call them speechlets—very much of the feuilletons of the French romances.
1896 Westm. Gaz. 13 Mar. 7/3 Leaving out of account speechlets by Mr. B. L. Thompson,..Lord Carrington [etc.].
Derivatives
ˈspeechling n. [ < -ling suffix1 2.]
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > short
parciloquy1656
oratiuncle1832
speechling1880
speechlet1881
1880 A. Trollope Life of Cicero I. 226 ‘I will send you,’ he says, ‘the speechlings which you require’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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