Meanings
noundentiloquist (plural dentiloquists)
plural dentiloquists
- rareSomeone who speaks through clenched teeth.
Ventriloquists are almost, though not completely, dentiloquists.
1992, Peter Bowler, The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words, David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., →ISBN, page 191 more example
To add to my mumbling complaint, (for, you must know, I have been quite a dentiloquist,) I have an only sister on a visit to me, who has been alarmingly ill for some time.
1834, letter from John Fawcett to Charles Matthews dated 10 March 1834, re-printed in Anne Jackson Mathews, Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian, Volume IV, Richard Bentley (1839), page 183
Origin
From Latin dens (tooth) + Latin loqui (to speak).
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