Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VEN-TRIL'O-QUISM, or VEN-TRIL'O-QUY, n. [L. venter, belly, and loquor, to speak.]

The act, art or practice of speaking in such a manner that the voice appears to come, not from the person, but from some distant place, as from the opposite side of the room, from the cellar, &c.