Sekirov Dictionary

farce

UK /fɑːs/US /fɑɹs/

noun 6
verb 4
forms 3

noun6

A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
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A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
- The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.
•
A ridiculous or empty show.
- The United States, he declared, was "a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards." — 2019
•
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.
An elaborate lie.
Forcemeat, stuffing.

verb4

To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
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(figurative) To fill full; to stuff.
- The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets. — 1678
(no longer used) To swell out; to render pompous.
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(no longer used) 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: […] — 1599

forms

farced · farcing · farces

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