sb. and a. rare. [Anglicized form of VENTRILOQUUS: cf. F. ventriloque.] a. sb. A ventriloquist. b. adj. Ventriloquial.
1681. Glanvill, Evid. Witches London, II. 63. This Pythoness being a Ventriloque, that is, speaking as it were from the bottom of her Belly.
1826. Hood, Irish Schoolm., iii. And oft, indeed, the inward of that gate, Most ventriloque, doth utter tender squeak.
1834. Mudie, Brit. Birds (1841), I. 314. The voice of the birds … is also made up partly of echo-notes, in all cases where it is ventriloque, or varies in apparent place.
