"dentiloquist" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dentiloquists [plural]
Etymology: From Latin dens (tooth) + Latin loqui (to speak). Head templates: {{en-noun}} dentiloquist (plural dentiloquists)
  1. (rare) Someone who speaks through clenched teeth. Tags: rare Related terms: dentiloquy
    Sense id: en-dentiloquist-en-noun-ERip0vxq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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  "forms": [
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        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "To add to my mumbling complaint, (for, you must know, I have been quite a dent'''iloquist,) I have an only sister on a visit to me, who has been alarmingly ill for some time."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Peter Bowler, The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words, David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., →ISBN, page 19:",
          "text": "Ventriloquists are almost, though not completely, dentiloquists.",
          "type": "quote"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone who speaks through clenched teeth."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) Someone who speaks through clenched teeth."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "dentiloquy"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "dentiloquist"
}
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  "forms": [
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    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "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",
          "text": "To add to my mumbling complaint, (for, you must know, I have been quite a dent'''iloquist,) I have an only sister on a visit to me, who has been alarmingly ill for some time."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Peter Bowler, The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words, David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., →ISBN, page 19:",
          "text": "Ventriloquists are almost, though not completely, dentiloquists.",
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        "Someone who speaks through clenched teeth."
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        "(rare) Someone who speaks through clenched teeth."
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        "rare"
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