slapstick
See also: Slapstick and slap-stick
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.
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
slapstick (countable and uncountable, plural slapsticks)
- (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.
- (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
Derived terms
Translations
physical comedy
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Anagrams
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈslæpstik/, [ˈs̠læps̠tik]
- Syllabification(key): slap‧stick
Declension
| 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. | |||
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Further reading
- “slapstick”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈslap.stik/
- Rhymes: -apstik
- Syllabification: slap‧stick
Declension
Derived terms
adjectives
- slapstickowy
- slapstikowy
Further reading
- slapstick in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
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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