ventriloquist
n.
1650s in the classical sense, from ventriloquy + -ist. In the modern sense from c.1800. Ventriloquists in ancient Greece were Pythones, a reference to the Delphic Oracle. Another English word for them was gastromyth.
词汇 | ventriloquist |
词根词缀 | Online Etymology Dictionary ventriloquist n. 1650s in the classical sense, from ventriloquy + -ist. In the modern sense from c.1800. Ventriloquists in ancient Greece were Pythones, a reference to the Delphic Oracle. Another English word for them was gastromyth. |
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