Definition of farce Farce

/fɑˈɹs/ - [fars] - farce

We found 19 definitions of farce from 6 different sources.

What does farce mean?

Noun Plural: farces
farce - a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
		farce comedy, travesty
		comedy light and humorous drama with a happy ending
farce - mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs
		forcemeat
		stuffing, dressing padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture
Verb farces, farcing, farced
farce - fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
		stuff
		make full, fill up, fill eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey"
		cookery, cooking, preparation the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"

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farce (Noun)
A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method; compare sarcasm.
farce (Noun)
A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
farce (Noun)
A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
farce (Noun)
A ridiculous or empty show.

farce (v. t.)
To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.
farce (v. t.)
To render fat.
farce (v. t.)
To swell out; to render pompous.
farce (v. t.)
Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.
farce (v. t.)
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 (v. t.)
Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce.

farce
A low style of comedy or a dramatic composition marked by low humour & broad improbabilities and often written with little regard to regularity or method.
farce
Text or story abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions.
farce
A ridiculous or empty show.

farce
färs, n. a style of comedy marked by low humour and extravagant wit: ridiculous or empty show.—n. Far′ceur, a joker.—adj. Far′cical.—n. Farcical′ity, farcical quality.—adv. Far′cically.—v.t. Far′cify, to turn into a farce. [Fr. farce, stuffing, from L. farcīre, to stuff, applied, acc. to H. Bradley, to words put between Kyrie and Eleison in religious services, then to the interpolated gag in a religious play, next a buffoon performance.]
farce
färs, v.t. to cram: to stuff, fill with stuffing: (Shak.) to swell out.—n. Far′cing, stuffing. [O. Fr. farsir—L. farcīre, to cram.]

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