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noun
A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
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Usage: countable
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noun
A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
A ridiculous or empty show.
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Usage: uncountable
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noun
An elaborate lie.
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Usage: countable
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noun
Forcemeat, stuffing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
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verb
To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To fill full; to stuff.
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Usage: figuratively, transitive
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verb
To make fat.
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
To swell out; to render pompous.
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Usage: obsolete, transitive
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verb
Alternative form of farse (“to insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy)”).
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: farce comedy, travesty
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Broader terms: comedy
noun
mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: forcemeat
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Broader terms: stuffing, dressing
verb
fill with a stuffing while cooking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: stuff
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Broader terms: fill, fill up, make full
History
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.
From Middle English farcen, from Old French farsir, farcir, from Latin farciō (“to cram, stuff”). Doublet of farse.
Across languages
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