farce
/fɑɹs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.33 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The farce that we saw last night had us laughing and shaking our heads at the same time."
- "Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language[…]; his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there."
- "The first month of labor negotiations was a farce."
- "The first match in the magnificent new national stadium was a Euro 2012 qualifier between Romania and France that soon descended into farce as the pitch cut up and players struggled to maintain their footing. Amorebieta at times seemed to be paying homage to that game, but nobody else seemed to have a problem; it was just that Falcao was far better than him."
- "The United States, he declared, was "a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards.""
- "The lunch […] consisted […] of […] lobster mayonnaise, cold game sausages, an immense veal and ham pie farced with eggs, truffles, and numberless delicious flavours; besides kickshaws, creams and sweetmeats."
Etymology
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.
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /fɑɹs/
- British English: /fɑːs/