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ventriloquy + -ist
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ventriloquist (plural ventriloquists )
A person, especially an entertainer , who practices ventriloquism .
1871 , Benjamin Jowett , The Sophist , translation of original by Plato :Most ridiculous is the discomfiture which attends the opponents of predication, who, like the ventriloquist Eurycles, have the voice that answers them in their own breast.
1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum , “Chapter 15 ”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M. Hill Co. , →OCLC :"Oh, I am a ventriloquist ," said the little man. "I can throw the sound of my voice wherever I wish, so that you thought it was coming out of the Head. [ …] "
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a person who practices ventriloquism
Arabic: مُتَكَلِّم مِنْ بَطْنِه ( mutakallim min baṭnih )
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܡܡܠܠ ܡܢ ܟܪܣܐ
Chinese:
Mandarin: 口技表演者 (zh) ( kǒujì biǎoyǎnzhě ) , 腹語者 / 腹语者 ( fùyǔzhě )
Czech: břichomluvec (cs) m
Danish: buktaler c , ventrilokvist c
Dutch: buikspreker (nl) m
Finnish: vatsastapuhuja
French: ventriloque (fr) m or f
German: Bauchredner (de) m , Bauchrednerin (de) f ; Ventriloquist (de) m , Ventriloquistin (de) f ( not generally understood )
Greek: εγγαστρίμυθος (el) m ( engastrímythos )
Ancient Greek: ἐγγαστρίμυθος m ( engastrímuthos )
Hungarian: hasbeszélő (hu)
Icelandic: búktalari m
Ido: ventroparolanto , ventroparolero (io)
Italian: ventriloquo (it) m , ventriloqua f
Japanese: 腹話術師 (ja) ( fukuwajutsushi )
Latvian: vēderrunātājs m , vēderrunātāja f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: buktaler m , buktalerske m or f , ventrilokvist m
Nynorsk: buktalar m , buktalerske f , ventrilokvist m
Polish: brzuchomówca (pl) m , brzuchomówczyni (pl) f
Portuguese: ventríloquo (pt) m , ventríloqua (pt) f
Romanian: ventriloc (ro) m , ventrilocă (ro) f
Russian: чревовеща́тель (ru) m ( črevoveščátelʹ ) , чревовеща́тельница (ru) f ( črevoveščátelʹnica )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: трбухозборац m
Roman: trbuhozborac (sh) m
Slovak: bruchomluvec m
Spanish: ventrílocuo (es) , ventrílocua (es) f
Swedish: buktalare (sv) c , buktalerska (sv) c
Tagalog: bentrilokwo
Turkish: vantrilok (tr)
Yiddish: בויכרעדער m ( boykhreder ) , בויכרעדערין f ( boykhrederin )