Definition of "ventriloquist" []

• One, especially an entertainer, who is adept at ventriloquism. (noun)

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• "It comes from two words - venter, which means tummy, and loqui, which means to speak - in other words a ventriloquist was supposed to be a man who could speak by using his tummy in some way."
• ""In the 10 years I've worked with him, I don't think I've even used the word ventriloquist when I describe him," Brown-Marmel told"
• "Conventional creative writing teaching would have us believe that the ventriloquist is a more fully evolved lifeform than the exhibitionist."