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A performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy
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ventriloquist
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s in the classical sense, from ventriloquy + -ist . In the modern sense from c.1800. Ventriloquists in ancient Greece were Pythones , a reference to the Delphic Oracle.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ventriloquist \Ven*tril"o*quist\, n. One who practices, or is skilled in, ventriloquism. Ventriloquist monkey (Zo["o]l.), the onappo; -- so called from the character of its cry.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Beware the ventriloquist , the dark horse, whose thrown voice juggles the truth. ▪ Frank shows himself to be the only ventriloquist to move his lips but not his teeth. ▪ Just occasionally, one could be forgiven for thinking that ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Ventriloquist is the name of several fictional characters who are enemies of Batman in the . The original Ventriloquist, Arnold Wesker , first appeared in Detective Comics #583 (February 1988) and was created by Alan Grant , John Wagner and Norm Breyfogle ...
Usage examples of ventriloquist.
The heat under the lights was unbelievable, but Carter was luckier than the ventriloquist, who had left his dummy on the stool unattended for five minutes.
Savage was an excellent ventriloquist and a master of voice imitation.
Navaho Elixir International and Oriental Al Fresco Entertainments, with the Old Indian Doctor, who had a charming sing-song Swedish accent, making a violent ventriloquist melodrama with three puppets.
As I was doing my ventriloquist act, an old guy wandered toward me, pushing his bike.
Others think there were two dummies and some ventriloquist in the crowd was just making the first one talk.
He used his voices the way ventriloquists use their dummies to say things he was too shy to say himself.
Quicklings were adept ventriloquists, and the biggest problem Tephanis had in deceiving the group was keeping his cries slow enough to be understood.
Quicklings were adept ventriloquists, and the biggest problem Tephanis had in deceiving the group was keeping his cries slow enough to be understood.
Baudolino realized that Andronicus, after having entrusted himself to ventriloquists and astrologers, and having tried in vain to find in Byzantium someone who, like the ancient Greeks, could foretell the future through the flight of birds, and with no faith in the wretches who boasted that they could interpret dreams, had by now given himself over to hydromants, who, like 2osimos, could draw presages by immersing in water something that had belonged to a deceased person.
He named me after Charlie Mccarthy, a dummy that a ventriloquist named Edgar Bergen had.
They kissed, he a little prudishly, while Shirley thought about what present to take back to her best friend Jean who also worked in the typing pool but who secretly wanted to be a ventriloquist.
Black-eyed gipsy girls, hooded in showy handkerchiefs, sallied forth to tell fortunes, and pale slender women with consumptive faces lingered upon the footsteps of ventriloquists and conjurors, and counted the sixpences with anxious eyes long before they were gained.