Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light dramatic work in which highly improbable plot situations, exaggerated characters, and often slapstick elements are used for humorous effect.
- noun The branch of literature constituting such works.
- noun The broad or spirited humor characteristic of such works.
- noun A ludicrous, empty show; a mockery.
- noun A seasoned stuffing, as for roasted turkey.
- transitive verb To pad (a speech, for example) with jokes or witticisms.
- transitive verb To stuff, as for roasting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To stuff; cram.
- Specifically In cookery, to stuff, as a pudding, fowl, or roast, with various meats, oysters, bread, or other ingredients, variously flavored or spiced; fill with stuffing.
- Figuratively, to fill, as a speech or written composition, with various scraps of wit or humor; make “spicy.”
- To extend; swell out.
- To fatten.
- noun A secular dramatic composition of a ludicrous or satirical character; low comedy.
- noun Ridiculous parade; absurd pageantry; foolish show.
- noun A ridiculous sham.
- To paint.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.
- transitive verb obsolete To render fat.
- transitive verb obsolete To swell out; to render pompous.
- noun (Cookery) Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.
- noun A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions.
- noun Ridiculous or empty show.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable A style of
humor marked bybroad improbabilities with little regard toregularity ormethod ; comparesarcasm - noun countable A
motion picture or play featuring this style of humor. - noun uncountable A situation abounding with
ludicrous incidents - noun uncountable A
ridiculous or empty show
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb fill with a stuffing while cooking
- noun mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs
- noun a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The French word farce is derived from farcir, going back to the Latin farcire which meant "to stuff."
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The French word farce is derived from farcir, going back to the Latin farcire which meant "to stuff."
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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The French word farce is derived from farcir, going back to the Latin farcire which meant "to stuff."
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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KING (voice-over): The 7 Line winds through the diverse neighbors of Queens, immigration reality, the mayor says, compared to what he calls the farce of a debate taking place in Washington.
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KING (voice-over): The 7 Line winds through the diverse neighbors of Queens, immigration reality, the mayor says, compared to what he calls the farce of a debate taking place in Washington.
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The AWB on Monday said it would refuse to take part in what it called the farce of the Tebbutt Commission.
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Maybe people are starting to wake up and realize that this farce is economically not feasible and unsustainable.
CNN Poll: President's approval on health care under 50 percent 2009
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This was a career-aborting farce from a no-talent screecher.
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My farce is in a flat-spin to sort out some sort of coherent anti-social behaviour management** due to the imminent arrival of HMIC to examine how we deal with the daily threat to the peace and quiet of our public.
My Kingdom For A 4X4 With Suitable Tyres! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Maybe people are starting to wake up and realize that this farce is economically not feasible and unsustainable.
CNN Poll: President's approval on health care under 50 percent 2009
samoritan commented on the word farce
Paris Hilton is out of jail! Justice for pretty people!
June 7, 2007
uselessness commented on the word farce
I'm trying to figure out which part was more farcical, the part about justice or the part about pretty.
June 7, 2007
reesetee commented on the word farce
I say both. :-\
June 7, 2007
samoritan commented on the word farce
The farce thickens... She's back in jail and quoted as saying, "I feel like I'm in a cage!"
June 11, 2007
uselessness commented on the word farce
No way does that describe jail!
June 11, 2007
samoritan commented on the word farce
Not for her!
June 11, 2007
jmjarmstrong commented on the word farce
JM has to rewrite something as a comedy rather than a drama, basically he has to do an about farce.
August 26, 2011
bilby commented on the word farce
ludicrous incidents of butter and Cyclopedia
n. countable A situation abounding with stuffing. Figuratively, to stuff.
n. (Cookery) Stuffing, or play featuring this style and often slapstick elements are used for roasting.
Century Dictionary and parsley and parsley and paint.
Ridiculous parade;
absurd pageantry; foolish show.
A light work in many churches was a dramatic composition markedly broad parsley and Cyclopedia
interlude
To stuff with little regard to regularity or fartus, past participle of a ludicrous method
To extend; swell out, hence Latin and onions.
To stuff with jokes or empty Webster's 1913 with mingled ingredients: (farsia) was a farce.
spirited humor marked by low humor, generally written with eggs
ludicrous
to render a mixture of fat literature constituting such works
exaggerated characters and lots of ground raw chicken
a motion picture pudding, fowl, or principal festival.
expressions: The branch of butter and French sung in a farce. n. a dramatic composition
*farsa, *farsa, *farsa, *farsa
January 11, 2013
hernesheir commented on the word farce
Ha. Great one, bilby!
January 12, 2013