FARCE
What does "FARCE" mean?
A comic dramatic work using improbable, exaggerated situations for absurd humor.
Meanings
- A broad comedy built on ridiculous, improbable, and exaggerated situations. The play was a fast-paced farce of mistaken identities and slamming doors.
- An event or situation so absurd or mismanaged it seems like a mockery. The trial descended into a complete farce. figurative
- In cooking, a seasoned stuffing or forcemeat. The chef piped the farce into each pastry shell. technical
Did you know?
- A comedic 'farce' and the 'farce' a chef stuffs into a chicken are the exact same word: both come from Latin 'farcire', 'to stuff', because medieval comic bits were literally stuffed into solemn church plays.
Word origin
From French 'farce' meaning 'stuffing', from Latin 'farcire' 'to stuff'; medieval comic interludes were 'stuffed' into church plays, and the culinary and theatrical senses share that single root.
Remember it
FARCE sounds like 'force' - a farce forces laughs out of the most absurd situations.
A little poem
Three doors, one wig, a borrowed name-
the lovers miss by half a frame.
We laugh because we'd do the same.
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Wordplay
- The chef's new play was a farce - he stuffed it with so much nonsense it could feed a wedding.
What it teaches
When events grow absurd enough, the only honest response left to us is to laugh.
Quick facts
What does FARCE mean?
A comic dramatic work using improbable, exaggerated situations for absurd humor.
Is FARCE a valid word?
Yes — FARCE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FARCE?
FARCE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does FARCE come from?
From French 'farce' meaning 'stuffing', from Latin 'farcire' 'to stuff'; medieval comic interludes were 'stuffed' into church plays, and the culinary and theatrical senses share that single root.
What can FARCE teach us?
When events grow absurd enough, the only honest response left to us is to laugh.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.