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farce
[ fahrs ]
noun
- a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.
- humor of the type displayed in such works.
- foolish show; mockery; a ridiculous sham.
Synonyms: ,
- Cooking. forcemeat.
verb (used with object)
farced, farcing.
- to season (a speech or composition), especially with witty material.
- Obsolete. to stuff; cram.
farce
/ ɑː /
noun
- a broadly humorous play based on the exploitation of improbable situations
- the genre of comedy represented by works of this kind
- a ludicrous situation or action
- Alsofarcemeat another name for forcemeat
verb
- to enliven (a speech, etc) with jokes
- to stuff (meat, fowl, etc) with forcemeat
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Other Word Forms
- ܲ·ڲ adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of farce1
First recorded in 1300–50; (for the noun) Middle English fars “stuffing,” from Middle French farce, from Vulgar Latin farsa (unrecorded), noun use of feminine of Latin farsus, earlier fartus “stuffed,” past participle of ڲī “to stuff”; (for the verb) Middle English farsen, from Old French farcir, from Latin ڲī
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Word History and Origins
Origin of farce1
C14 (in the sense: stuffing): from Old French, from Latin ڲī to stuff, interpolate passages (in the mass, in religious plays, etc)
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In a statement released after sentencing, Mrs Daniel criticised "the farce Akins has made of the justice system".
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A defence lawyer said it was a "farce".
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And the dynamic between the three central characters in “The Wedding Banquet” looks more like your modern-day polycule than it does an outrageously absurd farce.
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Rice bent his first free-kick around Real's four-man wall, but Green said to prevent that goal you may need to put three players outside of the post, which would have been "a farce".
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This is not your average “eat the rich” farce.
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