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forcemeat

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: farce

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: stuffing, dressing

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

19 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 五香碎肉 (wǔxiāng suìròu) — chopped meat
  • Czech: mleté maso — chopped meat
  • Czech: maso na nádivku — chopped meat
  • Danish: fars — chopped meat
  • Dutch: farce — chopped meat
  • Finnish: lihahakkelus — chopped meat
  • German: Farce — chopped meat
  • Ancient Greek: ἀλλᾶς (allâs) — chopped meat
  • Greenlandic: farsi — chopped meat
  • Irish: mionfheoil spíosraithe — chopped meat
  • Macedonian: полнетица (polnetica) — chopped meat
  • Polish: nadzienie — chopped meat
  • Polish: farsz — chopped meat
  • Russian: фарш (farš) — chopped meat
  • Spanish: farsa — chopped meat
  • Spanish: relleno de carne picada — chopped meat
  • Spanish: picadillo — chopped meat
  • Spanish: relleno de carne picada — chopped meat
  • Swedish: köttfärs — chopped meat