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Ventriloquist

noun
1.
A performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy.



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ventriloquist's dummy


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"Ventriloquist" Quotes from Famous Books



... contribution: facing the courted hen, he swelled out the great orange globes at the sides of his head, fluffed out his feathers, strutted forward a few steps, and tolled his deep-toned bell, with all the skill of a ventriloquist, making it seem far away when he was on a near-by knoll, like a velvet gong sounded with no stroke of the hammer, as if it spoke from some inward vibration set up by a mysterious current—a liquid "Do, re, me," here ...
— Vandemark's Folly • Herbert Quick
... his sadnesses, his exhilarations, are all ours, too. Like us he cries, "I wish I were unflinching and emphatic, and had big bushy eyebrows and a Message for the Age. I wish I were a deep Thinker, or a great Ventriloquist." Like us he has only a ghost, a thin, unreal phantom in a world of bank cashiers and duchesses and prosperous merchants and other Real Persons. Like us he fights a losing battle against the platitudes and moral generalizations ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley


Words linked to "Ventriloquist" :   performer, ventriloquy, ventriloquism, performing artist, ventriloquist's dummy


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