Phrase Hound found 67 phrases and 181 compound words that contain speak. The most common are listed below. Open speak in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 67
- speak outTo assert or promote one's opinion; to make one's thoughts known.
- speak upTo talk more loudly or clearly.
- speak of the devilAn expression sometimes used when a person mentioned in the current conversation happens to arrive on the scene.
- corporate speakAlternative form of corporatespeak: The jargon used within business and corporations.
- even as we speakRight at the moment, right now, contemporaneously.
- I don't speak EnglishIndicates that the speaker is unable to speak the English language.
- speak for oneselfExpressing disagreement with an opinion expressed by another.
- therapy-speakThe employment of psychologic jargon to converse with other people.
- do you speak EnglishAsks the interlocutor whether or not they are able to speak in the English language.
- baby-speakAlternative form of babyspeak: The infantile protolanguage of babies.
- speak volumesTo talk a great deal.
- actions speak louder than wordsIt is more effective to act directly than to speak of action.
- moon-speakAlternative form of moonspeak: Any foreign language deemed confusing by the speaker, especially Japanese or another East Asian language.
- speak highlyTo praise.
- what languages do you speakWhat are the languages which you can understand and which you can speak or write in?
- how many languages do you speakUsed to ask the interlocutor how many languages he or she speaks.
- speak in circlesSynonym of talk in circles: To argue a point by repetition of the same theme, sometimes by using different words, but without making any progress.
- speak in dollarsTo speak English.
- weather speakphatic conversation about the weather.
- Yoda-speakAlternative form of Yodaspeak: A form of speaking in which word order is altered to sound bizarre or unnatural.
- please speak more slowlyUsed to ask the interlocutor to speak more slowly.
- speak truth to powerTo address facts to an authority or a superior, especially in the face of risk to oneself.
- climate-speakThe jargon used by climatologists and people talking about climate change.
- val-speakAlternative form of valspeak: The sociolect spoken by stereotypical Southern Californian valley girls.
- speak too soonTo say something that is then contradicted by events, normally in an unwelcome way.
Compound words 181
- speakerOne who speaks.
- NewspeakThe fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc and designed to restrict the words, and thereby the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania in the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
- bespeakTo speak about; tell of; relate; discuss.
- doublespeakAny language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.
- teenspeakCommunication by adolescents viewed as slangy, awkward, or immature.
- underspeakTo speak with understatement and/or modesty.
- misspeakTo fail to pronounce, utter, or speak correctly.
- forespeakTo foretell, to predict.
- forspeakTo injure or cause bad luck through immoderate praise or flattery; to affect with the curse of an evil tongue, which brings ill luck upon all objects of its praise.
- duckspeakThoughtless or formulaic speech.