фарс — meaning in English
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English meaning
- farce noun A comic play or film built on absurd situations, mistaken identity, slamming doors and characters behaving with wild improbability, written purely to get laughs rather than to say anything serious.
- slapstick noun Comedy built on exaggerated physical mishaps — falls, chases, collisions and blows — rather than on words.
Senses
фарс is used for these senses in English:
- slapstick (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.
farce — full definition
- noun A comic play or film built on absurd situations, mistaken identity, slamming doors and characters behaving with wild improbability, written purely to get laughs rather than to say anything serious.
- noun A situation or process so badly handled or so obviously rigged that it cannot be taken seriously.
- noun In cookery, a seasoned stuffing of minced meat, herbs or breadcrumbs used to fill poultry, fish or vegetables.
slapstick — full definition
- noun Comedy built on exaggerated physical mishaps — falls, chases, collisions and blows — rather than on words.
- adjective Involving or characteristic of such comedy.
- noun A device of two thin boards joined at one end, used on stage to produce a loud crack when an actor is struck without causing injury.