farce
Pronunciation Etymology 1
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Pronunciation Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle French farce.
Nounfarce
- (uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
- (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 […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC ↗:
- 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.
- (uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
- The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.
- (uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show.
Verb from Middle English farcen, from Old French farsir, farcir, from Latin farciō.
Verbfarce (farces, present participle farcing; simple past and past participle farced)
- (transitive) To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
- 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt:
- 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.
- (transitive, figurative) To fill full; to stuff.
- 1678, Robert Sanderson, Pax Ecclesiae:
- The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets.
- (transitive, obsolete) To make fat.
- (transitive, obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous.
- 1615, George Sandys, “(please specify the page)”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC ↗:
- farcing his letter with fustian
- Alternative form of farse
farce
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