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dentiloquist

dentiloquist noun: someone who speaks through clenched teeth.

Noun

dentiloquist (plural dentiloquists)

  1. (rare) Someone who speaks through clenched teeth.
    • To add to my mumbling complaint, (for, you must know, I have been quite a dentiloquist,) I have an only sister on a visit to me, who has been alarmingly ill for some time.1834, letter from John Fawcett to Charles Matthews dated 10 March 1834, re-printed in Anne Jackson Mathews, Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian, Volume IV, Richard Bentley (1839), page 183
    • Ventriloquists are almost, though not completely, dentiloquists.1992, Peter Bowler, The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words, David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., →ISBN, page 19

Forms of dentiloquist

pluraldentiloquists

Origin of dentiloquist

From Latin dens (tooth) + Latin loqui (to speak).

Questions about dentiloquist

What does dentiloquist mean?
Dentiloquist means someone who speaks through clenched teeth.
What part of speech is dentiloquist?
Dentiloquist is a noun.
What is the plural of dentiloquist?
The plural of dentiloquist is dentiloquists.

Words near dentiloquist in the dictionary

  1. dentiles
  2. dentilingual
  3. dentilinguals
  4. dentillated
  5. dentilled
  6. dentiloquist
  7. dentiloquists
  8. dentils
  9. dentin
  10. dentinal
  11. dentinal fiber

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