Ventriloquist

Etymology
ventriloquy: + -ist:

Noun

 * 1) A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 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

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 口技表演者, 腹語者, 腹语者
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 腹話術師


 * Norwegian: buktaler
 * Serbian: trbuhozborac, трбухозборац
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: buktalare
 * Turkish: vantrilog

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