Other forms: farces
A farce is a wildly silly comedy, or an absurd sham. A French farce, descend into farce, the trial was a farce.
As a theatrical form it runs on mistaken identity, slamming doors and impossible timing, and it is much harder to perform than it looks. Calling a process a farce says it went through the motions without meaning. The word first meant stuffing.
1nounfarceA wildly silly comedy, or an absurd sham.
“The trial was a farce, as the judge had decided the verdict before it began.”
farce is a comedy, or a sham.
The French word is stuffing, the sort you put inside a bird. Comic scenes were stuffed into serious plays, and the stuffing took over the name.
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Old French farse meant stuffing, from Latin farcire, to stuff — comic scenes were stuffed into a religious play.
Latin
farciō — to stuff
Medieval Latin
farsa
Old French
farse
Middle English
fars,farsse
English, today
farce
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. a doublet of farse.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA