ventriloquist

From ventriloquy + -ist.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /vɛnˈtɹɪl.ə.kwɪst/

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• Rhymes: -ɪst

ventriloquist (plural ventriloquists)

1. A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.
   • 1871, Benjamin Jowett, The Sophist, translation of original by Plato:

     Most ridiculous is the discomfiture which attends the opponents of predication, who, like the ventriloquist Eurycles, have the voice that answers them in their own breast.

   • 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “Chapter 15”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC:

     "Oh, I am a ventriloquist," said the little man. "I can throw the sound of my voice wherever I wish, so that you thought it was coming out of the Head. […] "

• biloquist
• ventriloque (obsolete)

• ventriloquistic
• ventriloquistical
• ventriloquistically

• ventriloquial
• ventriloquially
• ventriloquism
• ventriloquy