biloquist

noun

1. A person having the ability to speak in two different voices, especially as a ventriloquist.

   rare

   Back in Maisel, I was a biloquist. A common street performer. What you would call a ventriloquist.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry biloquist (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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