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farce

noun
/fɑːs/UK/fɑɹs/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French farce (“farce (style of humor); stuffing”) (in the latter sense, via Middle English fars, farsse), from Old French farse, from Medieval Latin farsa, from the feminine perfect passive participle of Latin farciō (“to stuff”). The theatre sense alludes to the pleasant and varied character of certain stuffed food items. Doublet of farse.

  1. derived from farciō
  2. derived from farsa
  3. derived from farse
  4. inherited from fars,farsse
  5. borrowed from farce — “farce (style of humor); stuffing”

Definitions

  1. A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or…

    A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.

  2. A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.

    • The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time.

  3. A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.

    • The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. A ridiculous or empty show.

      • The United States, he declared, was "a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards."

    2. An elaborate lie.

    3. Forcemeat, stuffing.

    4. To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.

      • The lunch […] consisted […] of […] lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs, truffles, and numberless delicious flavours; besides kickshaws, creams and sweetmeats.

    5. To fill full

      To fill full; to stuff.

      • The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets.

    6. To make fat.

      • [I]f thou would’ſt farce thy leane Ribs with it [pork] too, they would not (like ragged Lathes) rub out ſo many Dublets as they do: […]

    7. To swell out

      To swell out; to render pompous.

      • farcing his letter with fustian

    8. Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”).

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Derived

farcelike, farcement, farceness, farcical, farcify, farcilite, farcist, melofarce, tragifarce, workfarce

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA