Word Meanings - SPREADEAGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech. [Colloq.& Humorous]

• Eagle-eyed
  Sharp-sighted as an eagle.
• Humorously
  Capriciously; whimsically.
• Speechified
  of Speechify
• EAGLESIGHTED
  Farsighted and strong-sighted; sharp-sighted. Shak.
• Eagle-sighted
  Farsighted and strong-sighted; sharp-sighted.
• Humorousness
  Moodiness; capriciousness.
• Speechifying
  of Speechify
• EAGLEWINGED
  Having the wings of an eagle; swift, or soaring high, like an eagle. Shak.
• Speechify
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• SPREADEAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech. [Colloq.& Humorous]
• Bombastic
  Alt. of Bombastical
• Eaglestone
  A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aetites.
• Oratorial
  Oratorical.
• Speeching
  The act of making a speech.
• SPREADEAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• Bombastical
  Characterized by bombast; high-sounding; inflated.

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