farce
意味
- 笑劇,どたばた喜劇,道化芝居
- 茶番的行為,ばかげた事件
例文
Even before Reagan and the Supreme Court stifled it, OSHA was a farce.
だが、レーガン政権と最高裁判所に潰される前でさえ、ＯＳＨＡは茶番であった。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Borrowed from Middle French farce (“farce (style of humor); stuffing”) (in the latter sense, via Middle English fars, farsse), from Old French farse, from Medieval Latin farsa, from the feminine perfect passive participle of Latin farciō (“to stuff”). The theatre sense alludes to the pleasant and varied character of certain stuffed food items. Doublet of farse.