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Etymology 1Edit

From Middle French farce (comic interlude in a mystery play).



farce (countable and uncountable, plural farces)

  1. (uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method; compare sarcasm.
  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.
    • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, Prologue:
  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.
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Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English farcen, from Old French farsir, farcir, from Latin farcire (to cram, stuff).


Particularly: “Different? if not, delete this section and move Ety Pron section above Ety 1 header”


farce (third-person singular simple present farces, present participle farcing, simple past and past participle farced)

  1. To stuff with forcemeat.
  2. (figuratively) To fill full; to stuff.
    • Bishop Sanderson
  3. (obsolete) To make fat.
    • Ben Jonson
      if thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs
  4. (obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous.
    • Sandys
      farcing his letter with fustian

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farce f (plural farces)

  1. stuffing (for meat, etc)
  2. farce (play)

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farce f

  1. plural form of farcia





farce f (plural farces)

  1. batter