OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 21757

ventriloquist

/vɛnˈtɹɪl.ə.kwɪst/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ventrílocua • ventrílocuo
A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.
"Oh, I am a ventriloquist," said the little man. "I can throw the sound of my voice wherever I wish, so that you thought it was coming out of the Head. […]"
Most ridiculous is the discomfiture which attends the opponents of predication, who, like the ventriloquist Eurycles, have the voice that answers them in their own breast.
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