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Biloquist vs Ventriloquist - What's the difference?

biloquist | ventriloquist | Synonyms |

Ventriloquist is a synonym of biloquist.



As nouns the difference between biloquist and ventriloquist

is that biloquist is a person having the ability to speak in two different voices, especially as a ventriloquist while ventriloquist is a person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.

biloquist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (rare) A person having the ability to speak in two different voices, especially as a ventriloquist.
  • * 1999 , Jack O'Connell, Word Made Flesh , ISBN 9780060192099, p. 28:
    • Back in Maisel, I was a biloquist . A common street performer. What you would call a ventriloquist.

    Related terms

    * biloquial * biloquism * biloquium

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.

    ventriloquist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.
  • * 1871 , Plato, translated by :
    • 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 , :
    • "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. "

    Synonyms

    * biloquist

    Derived terms

    * ventriloquistic