From ventriloquy + -ist.
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[elvin] 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. […] "
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 (fi)
- 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)
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