farce

Meanings

Noun

• 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

• To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
• To fill full; to stuff.
• To make fat.
• To swell out; to render pompous.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French farce ("comic interlude in a mystery play").
• Verb from Middle English farcen, from Old French farsir, farcir, from Latin farciō ("to cram, stuff").