ventriloquy
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English
Etymology
From Latin ventriloquium, from venter (“stomach”) + loquī (“to speak”).[1]
Noun
ventriloquy (countable and uncountable, plural ventriloquies)
Derived terms
References
- ^ “ventriloquy, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
