ventriloquist
English
WOTD – 10 September 2008
Etymology
ventriloquy + -ist
Noun
ventriloquist (plural ventriloquists)
- A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.
- 1871, Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett, The Sophist:
- 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, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter 15:
- "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. […] "
- 1871, Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett, The Sophist:
Synonyms
Derived terms
- ventriloquistic
- ventriloquistical
- ventriloquistically
Related terms
Translations
a person who practices ventriloquism
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