English
Etymology
ventriloquy + -ist
Pronunciation
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Rhymes: -ɪst
Noun
ventriloquist (plural ventriloquists )
A person, especially an entertainer , who practices ventriloquism .
1871 , Plato , translated by Benjamin Jowett , The Sophist :
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 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , Chapter 15 :
"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. [ …] "
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
a person who practices ventriloquism
Chinese:
Mandarin: 口技表演者 (zh) ( koǔjì biǎoyǎnzhě ) , 腹語者 / 腹语者 , 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 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 )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: buktaler m , buktalerske m or f , ventrilokvist m
Nynorsk: buktalar m , buktalerske f , ventrilokvist m
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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 m
Slovak: bruchomluvec m
Spanish: ventrílocuo (es) , ventrílocua f
Swedish: buktalare c
Tagalog: bentrilokwo
Turkish: vantrilog
Yiddish: בויכרעדער m ( boykhreder ) , בויכרעדערין f ( boykhrederin )