different between farcical vs fabliau

English

Etymology

farce +? -ical, after comical etc.

Adjective

farcical (comparative more farcical, superlative most farcical)

1. Resembling a farce; ludicrous; absurd.

Related terms

• farce

Translations

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.

Noun

fabliau (plural fabliaux)

1. A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 28:

     ‘I'm planning a sort of fabliau comparing this place with a fascist state,’ said Sampson, ‘sort of Animal Farm meets Arturo Ui...’

Translations

French

Etymology

Old French fabliau, diminutive of fable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.bli.jo/

Noun

fabliau m (plural fabliaux)

1. fabliau

See also

• fabliau on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Further reading

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

Old French

Etymology

Diminutive form of fable in the Picard dialect, compare biau

Noun

fabliau m (oblique plural fabliaus, nominative singular fabliaus, nominative plural fabliau)

1. fabliau

Portuguese

Noun

fabliau m (plural fabliaus)

1. (literature) fabliau (genre of short farcical tales)