forcemeat

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noun

An emulsion of fat and comminuted meat (which has been subject to puréeing, grinding, sieving, chopping finely) optionally mixed with other flavour carriers and either served up alone or used as a stuffing.

Similar
farce
OriginFrench farcir →
Scrabble 16
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Meanings

nounforcemeat (countable and uncountable, plural forcemeats)

plural forcemeats · alternative farcemeat

  1. countableuncountablecookingAn emulsion of fat and comminuted meat (which has been subject to puréeing, grinding, sieving, chopping finely) optionally mixed with other flavour carriers and either served up alone or used as a stuffing.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounmixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs

Similar
farce
Broader
stuffingdressing
Also see
dressingfarce

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Frenchfarcir“to stuff”
  2. Englishforcemeat

From force + meat, the former element a variant of obsolete farce (“to stuff”) influenced by force, itself from French farcir (“to stuff”).

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Translations

Ancient Greek ἀλλᾶς
  • ἀλλᾶς (allâs)chopped meat
Chinese Mandarin 五香碎肉
  • 五香碎肉 (wǔxiāng suìròu)chopped meat
Czech mleté maso, maso na nádivku
  • mleté masochopped meat
  • maso na nádivkuchopped meat
Danish fars
  • farschopped meat
Dutch farce
  • farcechopped meat
Finnish lihahakkelus
  • lihahakkeluschopped meat
German Farce
  • Farcechopped meat
Irish mionfheoil spíosraithe
  • mionfheoil spíosraithechopped meat
Polish nadzienie, farsz
  • nadzieniechopped meat
  • farszchopped meat
Russian фарш
  • фарш (farš)chopped meat
Spanish farsa, relleno de carne picada
  • farsachopped meat
  • relleno de carne picadachopped meat
  • picadillochopped meat
  • relleno de carne picadachopped meat
Swedish köttfärs
  • köttfärschopped meat

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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