Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗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.
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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- Borrowed-form mentionfarcefrm · farce (style of humor); stuffing
- Inherited-form mentionfars,farsseenm
- Derivation mentionfarsefro
- Derivation mentionfarciōla
- Doublet mentionfarseen
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