farcenoun詞源 1/fɑːs/

• 1

  A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.

• 2

  A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.

  • 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.
• 3

  A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.

  • 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.
• 4

  A ridiculous or empty show.

  • The United States, he declared, was "a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards."
• 5

  An elaborate lie.

• 6

  cookingfoodlifestyleForcemeat, stuffing.

farceverb詞源 2/fɑːs/

• 1

  To stuff with forcemeat or other food items.

  • 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.
• 2

  To fill full; to stuff.

  • The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets.
• 3

  obsoleteTo make fat.

  • [I]f thou would’ſt farce thy leane Ribs with it [pork] too, they would not (like ragged Lathes) rub out ſo many Dublets as they do: […]
• 4

  obsoleteTo swell out; to render pompous.

  • farcing his letter with fustian

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• farse