ventriloquous

English

Etymology

Latin ventriloquus (“a ventriloquist”); venter (“the belly”) + loqui, past participle locutus (“to speak”). See ventral and loquacious.

Adjective

ventriloquous (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or ventriloquism.

References

• “ventriloquous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.