ventriloquous
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin ventriloquus (“a ventriloquist”); venter (“the belly”) + loqui, past participle locutus (“to speak”). See ventral and loquacious.
Adjective edit
ventriloquous (not comparable)
- (archaic) Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or ventriloquism.
References edit
- “ventriloquous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.