FARCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does farce mean? 

• FARCE (noun)
  The noun FARCE has 2 senses:

1. a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations

2. mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs

  Familiarity information: FARCE used as a noun is rare.

• FARCE (verb)
  The verb FARCE has 1 sense:

1. fill with a stuffing while cooking

  Familiarity information: FARCE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FARCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

farce; farce comedy; travesty

Hypernyms ("farce" is a kind of...):

comedy (light and humorous drama with a happy ending)

Derivation:

farcical (broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

farce; forcemeat

Hypernyms ("farce" is a kind of...):

dressing; stuffing (a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables)

Derivation:

farce (fill with a stuffing while cooking)

• FARCE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fill with a stuffing while cooking

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

farce; stuff

Context example:

Have you stuffed the turkey yet?

Hypernyms (to "farce" is one way to...):

fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)

Verb group:

stuff (fill tightly with a material)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

farce (mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs)

 Context examples 

You play a farce, which I merely laugh at.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Tragedy had dwindled, the farce had begun.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I really believe, said he, I could be fool enough at this moment to undertake any character that ever was written, from Shylock or Richard III down to the singing hero of a farce in his scarlet coat and cocked hat.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)