ventriloquism

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

ventriloquy + -ism.

Noun

ventriloquism (countable and uncountable; plural ventriloquisms)

1. The art of projecting one's voice without moving the lips so that it appears to come from another source, such as a dummy.

Synonyms

• biloquism, ventrilocution

Translations

art of projecting one's voice so that it appears to come from another source

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 口技 (cmn) (kǒujì), 腹語術 (cmn), 腹语术 (cmn) (fùyǔshù)

• Finnish: vatsastapuhuminen (fi)
• French: ventriloquie (fr) f
• German: Bauchreden (de) n, Ventriloquismus (de) m
• Hungarian: hasbeszélés (hu)

• Icelandic: búktal (is) n
• Japanese: 腹話術 (ja) (ふくわじゅつ, fukuwajutsu)
• Russian: чревовещание (ru) (črevoveščánije) n, вентрология (ru) (ventrológija) f
• Serbo-Croatian: trbuhozborje n, trbuhozborstvo n
• Swedish: buktaleri n