Farcen

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To fill or stuff food, especially meat or poultry, with a seasoned mixture of minced meat or other ingredients before cooking
2. Archaic term meaning to stuff a dish or body with a savoury forcemeat filling so it is packed full
3. To cram or pad something out with a stuffing, most often a seasoned meat mixture placed inside a joint or bird

Etymology: "Farcen" is the Middle English verb meaning to stuff or fill, and it comes from the Old French "farcir," itself from Latin "farcire," "to stuff." The Latin root survives in English words like "farce," which was originally a term for the comic material inserted into the church liturgy and later for stuffed dishes. The verb "farcen" appears in Middle English texts, where it usually meant to fill a space or fill food with stuffing. Its meaning drifted into the sense of padding out a text with extra material, and that idea is what gave the noun "farce" its later sense of a theatrical piece built on padded, exaggerated comedy.

Synonyms: stuff, pad, fill, cram

Antonyms: empty, unload