biloquial
biloquial adjective: of, pertaining to, or possessing the ability to speak in two different voices, especially as a ventriloquist.
Adjective
biloquial (not comparable)
- Of, pertaining to, or possessing the ability to speak in two different voices, especially as a ventriloquist.
- Deception was often unnecessarily practised, and my biloquial faculty did not lie unemployed . . . . Standing one evening on the steps of the great altar, this devout friar expatiated on the miraculous evidences of his religion; and, in a moment of enthusiasm, appealed to San Lorenzo, whose...1805, Charles Brockden Brown, chapter 5, in Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
Origin of biloquial
Probably coined by American novelist Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810).
Words formed from biloquial
Questions about biloquial
- What does biloquial mean?
- Biloquial means of, pertaining to, or possessing the ability to speak in two different voices, especially as a ventriloquist.
- What part of speech is biloquial?
- Biloquial is an adjective.
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