farce

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɑːs/ (General American) enPR: färs, IPA(key): /fɑɹs/ Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)s === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Middle French farce (“farce (style of humor); stuffing”) (in the latter sense, via Middle English fars, farsse), from Old French farse, from Medieval Latin farsa, from the feminine perfect passive participle of Latin farciō (“to stuff”). The theatre sense alludes to the pleasant and varied character of certain stuffed food items. Doublet of farse. ==== 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. (countable) An elaborate lie. (cooking) Forcemeat, stuffing. ===== Hypernyms ===== comedy ===== Coordinate terms ===== tragedy ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== travesty === Etymology 2 === From Middle English farcen, from Old French farsir, farcir, from Latin farciō (“to cram, stuff”). Doublet of farse. ==== Verb ==== farce (third-person singular simple present farces, present participle farcing, simple past and past participle farced) (transitive) To stuff with forcemeat or other food items. (transitive, figurative) To fill full; to stuff. (transitive, obsolete) To make fat. (transitive, obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous. Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”). ===== Translations ===== === References === === Further reading === “farce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “farce”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “farce”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === Facer, EACRF, facer == Czech == === Noun === farce dative/locative singular of farka == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French farse, from Medieval Latin farsa, from the feminine perfect passive participle from Latin farciō (“to stuff”). Doublet of far. The theatre sense alludes to the pleasant and varied character of certain stuffed food items. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /faʁs/ === Noun === farce f (plural farces) (cooking) stuffing (theater) farce prank, joke ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== farcir ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “farce”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Hausa == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fáɽ.t͡ʃèː/ (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ɸáɽ.t͡ʃèː] === Noun === farcḕ m (plural farā̀tā, possessed form farcèn) fingernail Synonym: ƙumba == Italian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfar.t͡ʃe/ Rhymes: -artʃe Hyphenation: fàr‧ce === Noun === farce f plural of farcia === Anagrams === cafre == Norman == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Noun === farce f (plural farces) (Jersey) batter