slapstick
Appearance
See also: Slapstick and slap-stick
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From slap + stick, calque of Italian batacchio. The pair of sticks was used by the comic character Harlequin in the commedia dell'arte.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]slapstick (countable and uncountable, plural slapsticks)
- (uncountable, comedy) A style of humor focusing on physical comedy, such as slipping on a banana peel, and with foolish characters who get into humiliating situations.
- (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
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]physical comedy
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pair of sticks
Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English slapstick.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]slapstick
- slapstick (physical comedy)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of slapstick (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | slapstick | slapstickit | |
genitive | slapstickin | slapstickien | |
partitive | slapstickiä | slapstickejä | |
illative | slapstickiin | slapstickeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | slapstick | slapstickit | |
accusative | nom. | slapstick | slapstickit |
gen. | slapstickin | ||
genitive | slapstickin | slapstickien | |
partitive | slapstickiä | slapstickejä | |
inessive | slapstickissä | slapstickeissä | |
elative | slapstickistä | slapstickeistä | |
illative | slapstickiin | slapstickeihin | |
adessive | slapstickillä | slapstickeillä | |
ablative | slapstickiltä | slapstickeiltä | |
allative | slapstickille | slapstickeille | |
essive | slapstickinä | slapstickeinä | |
translative | slapstickiksi | slapstickeiksi | |
abessive | slapstickittä | slapstickeittä | |
instructive | — | slapstickein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “slapstick”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English slapstick.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]slapstick m inan
Declension
[edit]Declension of slapstick
singular | plural | |
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nominative | slapstick | slapsticki |
genitive | slapsticku | slapsticków |
dative | slapstickowi | slapstickom |
accusative | slapstick | slapsticki |
instrumental | slapstickiem | slapstickami |
locative | slapsticku | slapstickach |
vocative | slapsticku | slapsticki |
Derived terms
[edit]adjectives
Further reading
[edit]- slapstick in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English slapstick.
Noun
[edit]slapstick m (uncountable)
Usage notes
[edit]According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Categories:
- English compound terms
- English terms calqued from Italian
- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Comedy
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish unadapted borrowings from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/æpstik
- Rhymes:Finnish/æpstik/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms spelled with C
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Polish terms borrowed from English
- Polish unadapted borrowings from English
- Polish terms derived from English
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/apstik
- Rhymes:Polish/apstik/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- pl:Comedy
- Spanish terms borrowed from English
- Spanish unadapted borrowings from English
- Spanish terms derived from English
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish uncountable nouns
- Spanish terms spelled with K
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Comedy