noun

1. Now Rare stuffing, as for a fowl
2. an exaggerated comedy based on broadly humorous, highly unlikely situations
3. broad humor of the kind found in such plays
4. something absurd or ridiculous, as an obvious pretense his show of grief was a farce

Etymology: Fr, stuffing, hence farce < VL *farsa < pp. of L farcire, to stuff: early farces were used to fill interludes between acts

transitive verb farced, farcing farc′·ing