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farce¹

  • /fɑːs/ UK
  • /fɑɹs/ US

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)s

Where it comes from

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 farces

  1. uncountable A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
  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.
  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 United States, he declared, was "a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards."
  5. countable An elaborate lie.
  6. countable, uncountable Forcemeat, stuffing.

farce²

  • /fɑːs/ UK
  • /fɑɹs/ US

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)s

Where it comes from

From Middle English farcen, from Old French farsir, farcir, from Latin farciō (“to cram, stuff”). Doublet of farse.

verb farces · farcing · farced

  1. transitive To stuff with forcemeat or other food items. The lunch […] consisted […] of […] lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs, truffles, and numberless delicious flavours; besides kickshaws, creams and sweetmeats.
  2. figuratively, transitive To fill full; to stuff. The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets.
  3. obsolete, transitive To make fat. [I]f thou would’ſt farce thy leane Ribs with it [pork] too, they would not (like ragged Lathes) rub out ſo many Dublets as they do: […]
  4. obsolete, transitive To swell out; to render pompous. farcing his letter with fustian
  5. alternative Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”).

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: travesty, forcemeat, farce comedy, satire, parody, joke, prank, kidding, pretence, mockery, sham, fake, trick, laugh, guise, giggle

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noun style of humor

Españolfarsa
日本語笑劇 shōgeki, ファルス farusu
中文鬧劇 /闹剧 nàojù
Portuguêsfarsa
Françaisfarce
DeutschFarce, Posse
Italianofarsa
Românăfarsă
Русскийфарс fars

noun situation full of ludicrous incidents

Españolfarsa, sainete
Portuguêsfarsa
DeutschFarce
Românăfarsă
Русскийфарс fars

noun ridiculous or empty show

中文鬧劇 /闹剧 nàojù
Portuguêsfarsa
DeutschFarce
Русскийфарс fars, балага́н balagán

verb to stuff with forcemeat

Françaisfarcir
Deutschfarcieren

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@misc{farce_2026,
  title = {farce},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/farce},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}