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Farce

//fɑːs// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method. uncountable
  2. 2
    a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations wordnet
  3. 3
    A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor. countable

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

  4. 4
    mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs wordnet
  5. 5
    A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents. uncountable

    "The first month of labor negotiations was a farce."

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  1. 6
    A ridiculous or empty show. uncountable

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

  2. 7
    An elaborate lie. countable
  3. 8
    Forcemeat, stuffing. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To stuff with forcemeat or other food items. transitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    fill with a stuffing while cooking wordnet
  3. 3
    To fill full; to stuff. figuratively, transitive

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

  4. 4
    To make fat. obsolete, transitive

    "[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: […]"

  5. 5
    To swell out; to render pompous. obsolete, transitive

    "farcing his letter with fustian"

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  1. 6
    Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”). alt-of, alternative

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English farcen, from Old French farsir, farcir, from Latin farciō (“to cram, stuff”). Doublet of farse.

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