different between farce vs slapstick

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??s/
• (General American) enPR: färs, IPA^(key): /f??s/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French farce (“comic interlude in a mystery play”, literally “stuffing”).

Noun

farce (countable and uncountable, plural farces)

1. (uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
2. (countable) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
3. (uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
4. (uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show.

Derived terms

• farcical

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb from Middle English farcen, from Old French farsir, farcir, from Latin farci? (“to cram, stuff”).

Verb

farce (third-person singular simple present farces, present participle farcing, simple past and past participle farced)

1. (transitive) To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
   • 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt

     The lunch […] consisted […] of […] lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs, truffles, and numberless delicious flavours; besides kickshaws, creams and sweetmeats.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To fill full; to stuff.
   • 1678, Robert Sanderson, Pax Ecclesiae

     The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To make fat.
   • 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour

     if thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs

4. (transitive, obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous.
   • 1615, George Sandys, The Relation of a Journey begun an. Dom. 1610, in four books

     farcing his letter with fustian

Translations

Noun

farce

1. (cooking) Forcemeat, stuffing.

Further reading

• farce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• farce in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• farce at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Facer, facer

Czech

Noun

farce

1. dative singular of farka
2. locative singular of farka

French

Etymology

From Old French farse, from Medieval Latin farsa, feminine perfect passive participle from farc?re, from farci? (“I stuff”). The theatre sense alludes to the pleasant and varied character of certain stuffed food items.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?s/

Noun

farce f (plural farces)

1. (cooking) stuffing
2. (theater) farce

Derived terms

Related terms

• farcir

Descendants

Further reading

• “farce” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

References

Hausa

Noun

farc? m (plural far??t?, possessed form farcèn)

1. fingernail

   Synonym: ?umba

Italian

Noun

farce f

1. plural of farcia

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

farce f (plural farces)

1. (Jersey) batter

English

Alternative forms

• slap-stick

Etymology

slap +? stick, calque of Italian batacchio. The pair of sticks was used by the comic character Harlequin in the commedia dell'arte.

Noun

slapstick (countable and uncountable, plural slapsticks)

2. (uncountable) A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with foolish characters who get into humiliating situations.
3. (countable) A pair of sticks attached at one end and used to create a slapping sound effect, used especially in slapstick comedy; a type of clapper.

Synonyms

• physical comedy

Derived terms

• slapsticker
• slapstickery

Translations

Anagrams

• plasticks

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English slapstick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?slæpstik/, [?s?læps?t?ik]
• Syllabification: slap?stick

Noun

slapstick

1. slapstick (physical comedy)

Declension

Compounds

• slapstickelokuva
• slapstickkomedia

Spanish

Noun

slapstick m (uncountable)

1. slapstick