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Voice-throwing technique
Answer for the clue "Voice-throwing technique ", 11 letters:
ventriloquy
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Word definitions for ventriloquy in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ventriloquy \Ven*tril"o*quy\, n. [Cf. F. ventriloquie.] Same as Ventriloquism .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy) [syn: ventriloquism ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context dated English) ventriloquism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Late Latin ventriloquus , from Latin venter (genitive ventris ) "belly" (see ventral ) + loqui "speak" (see locution ). Related: Ventriloquial ; ventriloquize .\n \nPatterned on Greek engastrimythos , literally "speaking in the belly," which ...
Usage examples of ventriloquy.
Fitzfarris would present his sideshow and mouse game and ventriloquy during intermissions.
On the occasions when he did bestir himself to speak, he did so almost by ventriloquy, directing his remarks to the Princess of Liechtenstein to be passed along.