单词 | farce |
释义 | farce[ fahrs ] / fɑrs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR farce ON THESAURUS.COM nouna light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character. humor of the type displayed in such works. foolish show; mockery; a ridiculous sham. Cooking. forcemeat. verb (used with object), farced, farc·ing.to season (a speech or composition), especially with witty material. Obsolete. to stuff; cram. Origin of farce1300–50; (noun) Middle English fars stuffing <Middle French farce<Vulgar Latin *farsa, noun use of feminine of Latin farsus, earlier fartus stuffed, past participle of farcīre to stuff; (v.) Middle English farsen<Old French farcir<Latin farcīre SYNONYMS FOR farce3 burlesque, travesty. SEE SYNONYMS FOR farce ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM farceun·farced, adjectiveWords nearby farcefar and wide, faraway, far be it from one to, Farber's disease, FARC, farce, farcemeat, farceur, farceuse, farci, farcical Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for farceBritish Dictionary definitions for farcefarce / (fɑːs) / nouna broadly humorous play based on the exploitation of improbable situations the genre of comedy represented by works of this kind a ludicrous situation or action Also: farcemeat another name for forcemeat verb (tr) obsoleteto enliven (a speech, etc) with jokes to stuff (meat, fowl, etc) with forcemeat Word Origin for farceC14 (in the sense: stuffing): from Old French, from Latin farcīre to stuff, interpolate passages (in the mass, in religious plays, etc) Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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