ventriloquist

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English

WOTD – 10 September 2008

Etymology

From ventriloquy +‎ -ist.

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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 Frank Baum, “Chapter 15”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo M 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. […] "

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