klucht

Meaning

1. (feminine, masculine) farce, coarse comedy
2. (feminine, masculine) a small flock of birds; covey, brood

Concepts

farce

comedy

flock

school

🏫

shoal

splatterspunk

Synonyms

grol

🤣

farce

blijspel

komedie

school

🏫

travestie

Translations

Farce

farsa

farsa

farce

commedia

comédia

Fernsehserie

banc

Schwarm

smínos

comédie

essaim

kopádi

Lustspiel

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch: cluft

Inherited from Old Dutch: *kluft

In summary

From Middle Dutch cluft, clucht, from Old Dutch *kluft, from Proto-Germanic *kluftiz (whence also German Kluft, English cleft). Equivalent to klieven (“to cleave”) + -t (“verbal noun”), and the Middle Dutch meaning was at first "separation, department", later also "neighbourhood of a town". The sense shifted to its modern meaning only in early modern Dutch times, starting with "nonsense, prattle" and then "joke, humorous story".