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farce (färs)

noun

  1. Now Rare stuffing, as for a fowl
  2. an exaggerated comedy based on broadly humorous, highly unlikely situations
  3. broad humor of the kind found in such plays
  4. something absurd or ridiculous, as an obvious pretense his show of grief was a farce

Etymology: Fr, stuffing, hence farce < VL *farsa < pp. of L farcire, to stuff: early farces were used to fill interludes between acts

transitive verb farced, farcing farc′·ing

to fill out with or as with stuffing or seasoning to farce a play with old jokes

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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