English

Noun

ventriloquist ‎(plural ventriloquists)

1. 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. […] "

Synonyms

• biloquist

Derived terms

• ventriloquistic

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