ventriloquist

Etymology

ventriloquy + -ist

noun

  1. A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.
    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. 1871, Benjamin Jowett, The Sophist, translation of original by Plato

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