farce.
A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
Meaning & usage
A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
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.
A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.
A ridiculous or empty show.
An elaborate lie.
Forcemeat, stuffing.
Where this word comes from
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.
To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
To fill full; to stuff.
To make fat.
To swell out; to render pompous.
Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”).
Where this word comes from
From Middle English farcen, from Old French farsir, farcir, from Latin farciō (“to cram, stuff”). Doublet of farse.
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