farceur

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French farceur.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɑɹˈsɝ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɑːˈsɜː/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

Noun

farceur (plural farceurs)

1. A person who writes farces, or who performs in them.
   • 1987 August 22, Tom Grabosky, “Who Hears an Orton?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 6, page 7:

     […] and as always, the best avenue for resolving rage is positive action. For the playwright, this has and does often take the form of satire, and perhaps the most outstanding farceur of the '60s was Joe Orton.

2. A farcical comedian.

Related terms

• farceuse

French

Etymology

From farce +‎ -eur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /faʁ.sœʁ/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

farceur m (plural farceurs, feminine farceuse)

1. joker; trickster; prankster, jokester
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     — Quoi donc t'étonne? Il s'absente ainsi de temps à autre pour se distraire, et, ma foi! je l'approuve. Quand on a de la fortune et que l'on est garçon!… Du reste, il s'amuse joliment, notre ami! c'est un farceur. M. Langlois m'a conté…

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2. (dated, theater) actor who plays in a farce

Descendants

• Danish: farcør
• English: farceur

Further reading

• “farceur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• “farceur”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse