farce

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

Verb Forms: farced, farcing, farces

To stuff with filling; also, to embellish with witty material.
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)”).

Examples

He tried to farce his Scrabble explanation with humor, hoping to distract from his low score.
The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time.
The first month of labor negotiations was a farce.

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

Words With Friends Score: 11

farce: valid Words With Friends Word