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FARCE
farce, farce comedy, travesty
(noun) a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
forcemeat, farce
(noun) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs
farce, stuff
(verb) fill with a stuffing while cooking; “Have you stuffed the turkey yet?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
farce (countable and uncountable, plural farces)
(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.
(uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
(uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show.
Etymology 2
Verb
farce (third-person singular simple present farces, present participle farcing, simple past and past participle farced)
To stuff with forcemeat.
(figurative) To fill full; to stuff.
(obsolete) To make fat.
(obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous.
Noun
farce
(culinary) Forcemeat, stuffing.
Anagrams
• Facer, facer
Source: Wiktionary
Farce, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Farced, p. pr. & vb. n. Farcing (.] Etym: [F. Farcir, L. farcire; akin to Gr. Force to stuff, Diaphragm, Frequent, Farcy, Farse.]
1. To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff. [Obs.] The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets. Bp. Sanderson. His tippet was aye farsed full of knives. Chaucer.
2. To render fat. [Obs.] If thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs. B. Jonson.
3. To swell out; to render pompous. [Obs.] Farcing his letter with fustian. Sandys.
Farce, n. Etym: [F. farce, from L. farsus (also sometimes farctus), p.p. pf farcire. See Farce, v. t.]
1. (Cookery)
Definition: Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.
2. 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. Farce is that in poetry which "grotesque" is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false. Dryden.
3. Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce. "The farce of state." Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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