Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

forcemeat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.27 in modern English

Syllables: force-meat
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: farcir

Usage

Inflected Forms

forcemeats (plural) farcemeat (alternative)

Synonyms

farce

Questions

What does forcemeat mean?: 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.
Where does forcemeat come from?: It is traced to French.

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