noun
- Now Rare stuffing, as for a fowl
- an exaggerated comedy based on broadly humorous, highly unlikely situations
- broad humor of the kind found in such plays
- something absurd or ridiculous, as an obvious pretense: his show of grief was a farce
Origin:
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
to fill out with or as with stuffing or seasoning: to farce a play with old jokes