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biloquist

biloquist noun: a person having the ability to speak in two different voices, especially as a ventriloquist.

Noun

biloquist (plural biloquists)

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

Forms of biloquist

pluralbiloquists

Origin of biloquist

Probably coined by American novelist Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) in Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (1805).

Questions about biloquist

What does biloquist mean?
Biloquist means a person having the ability to speak in two different voices, especially as a ventriloquist.
What part of speech is biloquist?
Biloquist is a noun.
What is the plural of biloquist?
The plural of biloquist is biloquists.

Words near biloquist in the dictionary

  1. biloquial
  2. biloquialism
  3. biloquialist
  4. biloquialists
  5. biloquism
  6. biloquist
  7. biloquists
  8. biloquium
  9. bilos
  10. bilosome
  11. bilosomes

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