Meanings
nounventriloquy (countable and uncountable, plural ventriloquies)
plural ventriloquies
- countabledateduncountableVentriloquism.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy)
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Origin
- Latinventriloquium
- Englishventriloquy
From Latin ventriloquium, from venter (“stomach”) + loquī (“to speak”). By surface analysis, ventri- + -loquy.
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