ventriloquous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Latin ventriloquus (“a ventriloquist”); venter (“the belly”) + loqui, past participle locutus (“to speak”). See ventral and loquacious.
Adjective
[edit]ventriloquous (not comparable)
- (archaic) Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or ventriloquism.
References
[edit]- “ventriloquous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.