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1. (n.) farce
a comedy based on unlikely situations and exaggerated effects.
2. farce
humor of the type displayed in such works.
3. farce
a foolish or meaningless show; ridiculous sham; mockery.
4. farce
a stuffing; forcemeat.
5. (v.t.) farce
to enliven (a speech or composition), esp. with witty material.
6. farce
to stuff; cram.
Etymology: (1300–50; ME fars stuffing < MF farce < VL *farsa, n. use of fem. of L. farsus stuffed, ptp. of farcīre to stuff)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) farce, farce comedy, travesty
a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
2. (verb) forcemeat, farce
mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs
3. (verb) farce, stuff
fill with a stuffing while cooking
"Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (verb) farce
to stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff
2. (verb) farce
to render fat
3. (verb) farce
to swell out; to render pompous
4. (verb) farce
stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat
5. (verb) farce
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
6. (verb) farce
ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce
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Sense: a (kind of) comic play in which both the characters and the events shown are improbable and ridiculous
The play is a classic farce.
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 Afrikaans: klug |
 Arabic: مَسْرَحِيَّه هَزَلِيَّه س |
 Bulgarian: комедия |
 Brazilian: farsa |
 Czech: fraška |
 German: der Schwank |
 Danish: farce |
 Greek: φαρσοκωμωδία |
 Spanish: farsa |
 Estonian: farss |
 Farsi: نمایش خنده آور |
 Finnish: farssi |
 French: farce |
 Hebrew: מַמָש בְּדִיחָה |
 Hindi: स्वांग |
 Croatian: farsa, lakrdija |
 Hungarian: komédia |
 Indonesian: dagelan |
 Icelandic: farsi |
 Italian: farsa |
 Japanese: 笑劇 |
 Korean: 극(笑劇), 광대극 |
 Lithuanian: farsas |
 Latvian: farss |
 Malay: farsa |
 Dutch: klucht |
 Norwegian: farse |
 Polish: farsa |
 Persian: نمایش خنده آور |
 Pashto: لوبه (ډرامه) چه دملنډو او |
 Portuguese: farsa |
 Romanian: farsă |
 Russian: фарс |
 Slovak: fraška |
 Slovenian: burka |
 Serbian: farsa |
 Swedish: fars |
 Thai: ละครตลก |
 Turkish: orta oyunu, tulûat |
 Taiwanese: 笑劇，滑稽戲 |
 Ukrainian: фарс; комедія |
 Urdu: مضحکہ خیز تمثیل |
 Vietnamese: kịch vui nhộn |
 Chinese: 笑剧，滑稽戏 |
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