ventriloquist
[ven-tril-uh-kwist]
- a person who performs or is skilled in ventriloquism.
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Origin of ventriloquist
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Contemporary Examples
He becomes a ventriloquist, and gets laughs only when the dummy pees on him.
When the ventriloquist is a voice of experience and not of love, words are no longer material for heartfelt expression.
Historical Examples
But she thinks you are a sort of ventriloquist, and can throw your voice anywhere you like.
A Modern TomboyL. T. Meade
And he could imitate animals, and as you say, he was probably a ventriloquist.
SimonJ. Storer Clouston
"There speaks the ventriloquist again," sighed Frank, in bitterness.
The Confidence-ManHerman Melville
The vagaries of a ventriloquist are a matter for roars of laughter.
A Padre in FranceGeorge A. Birmingham
I have therefore taken upon me to call it the "Ventriloquist."
Expedition into Central AustraliaCharles Sturt
Word Origin and History for ventriloquist
n.
1650s, from ventriloquy + -ist. Ventriloquists in ancient Greece were Pythones, a reference to the Delphic Oracle.
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