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flake 1, noun (oh) and ventriloquize (iou)


flake 1, noun (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Origin: From a Scandinavian language; related to Norwegian flak 'disk']
a small thin piece that breaks away easily from something else
flake of
::flakes of snow
::chocolate flakes
-see also snowflake
AmE informal someone who seems strange or who often forgets things
-synonym space cadet space cadet

ventriloquize (iou)



ventriloquize verb. Also ventriloquise. E19.
[from VENTRILOQUY + -IZE.]
verb intrans. Use or practise ventriloquism; speak or produce sounds (as) by ventriloquism. E19.
Thackeray The Strand Theatre where a Signor Benesontag..was ventriloquizing.
verb trans. Say or express (as) by ventriloquism. M19.
W. H. Auden The Void desires..you for its creature, / a doll through whom it may ventriloquize / its vast resentment.