• (RP) IPA: /fɑːs/
• (GA) enPR: färs, IPA: /fɑɹs/

farce

1. (uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
2. (countable) 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.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗:

     Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […]; his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.

3. (uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.

   The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.

4. (uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show.

   The political arena is a mere farce, with all sorts of fools trying to grab power.

• French: farce
• German: Farce, Posse
• Italian: farsa
• Russian: фарс
• Spanish: farsa

• German: Farce
• Russian: фарс
• Spanish: farsa, sainete

• German: Farce
• Russian: фарс

farce (farces, present participle farcing; past and past participle farced)

1. To stuff with forcemeat.
2. (figurative) To fill full; to stuff.

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

3. (obsolete) To make fat.
   • 1599, Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour

     if thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs

4. (obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous.

   • farcing his letter with fustian

farce

1. (culinary) Forcemeat, stuffing.