spieled
Gave sales patter
Spieled is the past tense of spiel, meaning to talk at length in a rehearsed or persuasive manner.
The word suggests a polished, often glib delivery—a salesman's pitch or a tour guide's practiced patter: He spieled about the product's features for twenty minutes.
The noun spiel is the talk itself.
Quick rehearsed speech
- pitchFrequency of sound
- hustleEnergetic, aggressive action
- sellTransfer for payment
- hawkTaloned predatory bird
tout · plug · promote · schmaltz · schtick · glib · smooth-talk · fast-talk
Written out beforehand
- memorizedStored in recall
- recitedSpoke from memory
- practicedSkilled from repeated effort
- cannedSealed for preservation
rote · polished · delivery · lines · routine · well-worn · stock · formulaic
patter
Quick rehearsed speech
hawk · tout · plug · promote · schmaltz · schtick · glib · smooth-talk · fast-talk · infomercial
scripted
Written out beforehand
canned · rote · polished · delivery · lines · routine · well-worn · stock · formulaic · pat
speech
Oral communication ability
harangue · diatribe · declaim · pontificate · rant · expound · discourse · soapbox · tirade · rhetoric
prattle
Trivial, prolonged speech
gabble · chatter · yammer · maunder · drivel · rambling · digression · meander · verbosity · prolixity
spieledsummarized
Restated in fewer words
abbreviated · condensed · cut to the chase · got to the point · boiled down