Ventriloquy

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Ventriloquism. countable, dated, uncountable
  2. 2
    the art of projecting your voice so that it seems to come from another source (as from a ventriloquist's dummy) wordnet

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Etymology

From Latin ventriloquium, from venter (“stomach”) + loquī (“to speak”).

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