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slapstick

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See also: Slapstick and slap-stick

English

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Alternative forms

  • slap-stick

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

slapstick (countable and uncountable, plural slapsticks)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.

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Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English slapstick.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈslæpstik/, [ˈs̠læps̠tik]
  • Rhymes: -æpstik
  • Syllabification(key): slap‧stick
  • Hyphenation(key): slap‧stick

Noun

slapstick

  1. slapstick (physical comedy)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

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Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English slapstick.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈslap.stik/
  • Rhymes: -apstik
  • Syllabification: slap‧stick

Noun

slapstick m inan

  1. (comedy) slapstick (physical comedy)

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adjectives
  • slapstickowy
  • slapstikowy

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English slapstick.

Noun

slapstick m (uncountable)

  1. slapstick

Usage notes

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.

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