farce

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

farce [farce farces] BrE [fɑːs] NAmE [fɑːrs] noun
1. countable, uncountable a funny play for the theatre based on ridiculous and unlikely situations and events; this type of writing or performance
•a bedroom farce (= a funny play about sex)
2. countable a situation or an event that is so unfair or badly organized that it becomes ridiculous
•The trial was a complete farce.

Word Origin:
early 16th cent.: from French, literally stuffing, from farcir ‘to stuff’, from Latin farcire. An earlier sense of ‘forcemeat stuffing’ became used metaphorically for comic interludes “stuffed” into the texts of religious plays, which led to the current usage.

Example Bank:
•The debate degenerated into farce when opposing speakers started shouting at each other.
•The whole procedure has become a complete farce.
•Farce is often looked down upon by serious theatre goers.
•Feydeau's classic bedroom farce is set in turn-of-the-century Paris.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  forcemeat, farce comedy, travesty, stuff