Fart vs Farce - What's the difference?
fart | farce |
(informal, mildly, vulgar) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.
* 1728 , , "A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy":
To waste time with idle and inconsequential tasks; to go about one's activities in a lackadaisical manner; to be lazy or over-relaxed in one's manner or bearing.
(informal) An emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus.
* , II.12:
(colloquial, vulgar) An irritating person; a fool.
(colloquial, vulgar, potentially offensive) (usually as "old fart ") An elderly person; especially one perceived to hold old-fashioned views.
(lb) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method; compare sarcasm .
(lb) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor.
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(lb) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 9, author=Jonathan Wilson, work=the Guardian
, title= (lb) A ridiculous or empty show.
To stuff with forcemeat.
(figurative) To fill full; to stuff.
* Bishop Sanderson
(obsolete) To make fat.
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) To swell out; to render pompous.
* Sandys
As nouns the difference between fart and farce
is that fart is (informal) an emission of digestive gases from the anus; a flatus while farce is .As a verb fart
is (informal|mildly|vulgar) to emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate.fart
English
(wikipedia fart)Verb
(en verb)- I fart with twenty ladies by;
- They call me beast; and what care I?
Synonyms
* beef * blow off * break wind * cut one loose * cut the cheese * flatulate * guff * have gas * let one rip * pass gas * pass wind * poot * step on a duck * step on a frog * toot * blown bowel bugle * trouser cough (waste time with aimless activities) futz, fool around, fool about * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- Metrocles somewhat indiscreetly, as he was disputing in his Schole, in presence of his auditory, let a fart , for shame whereof he afterwards kept his house and could not be drawen abroad.
Synonyms
(an emission of flatulent gases) * barking spider * bottom burp * flatus * fluffer-doodle * air biscuit * poot * raspberry tart (Cockney rhyming slang) * toot * beef * See alsoDerived terms
{{der3, armpit fart , brain fart , duck fart , fanny fart , farter , farting , fart sack , nun fart , old fart , sparrow-fart}}See also
* burp * flatulence * flatulent * flatus * queefAnagrams
* * * * ----farce
English
(wikipedia farce)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer languageunderstood 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.
Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao, passage=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.}}
Derived terms
* farcicalEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(farc)- The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets.
- if thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs
- farcing his letter with fustian