farce

Meanings

Plural: farces

Noun

a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs
A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
A ridiculous or empty show.
Forcemeat, stuffing.

Verb

fill with a stuffing while cooking
To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
To fill full; to stuff.
To make fat.
To swell out; to render pompous.
Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”).

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

farce comedy, forcemeat, stuff, travesty

Scrabble Score: 10

farce is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
farce is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
farce is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

farce is a valid Words With Friends word