ventriloquy

English

Etymology

From Latin ventriloquium, from venter (“stomach”) + loquī (“to speak”).[1]

Noun

ventriloquy (countable and uncountable, plural ventriloquies)

  1. (dated) Ventriloquism.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “ventriloquy, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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