macaroni
Meanings
Plural: macaronies, macaronis
Noun
- a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms
- "Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni"
- pasta in the form of slender tubes
- A type of pasta in the form of short tubes, typically boiled and served in soup, with a sauce, or in melted cheese; a dish of this.
- Pasta, particularly thicker noodles, spaghetti.
- Synonym of gnocchi (“Italian dumpling made of potato or semolina”).
- A dandy or fop, particularly in the 18th century a young Englishman who had travelled in Europe and subsequently dressed and spoke in an ostentatiously affected Continental manner.
- A 19th-century quarter-silver dollar coin, typically a full 2-real coin or a quarter clipping of an 8-real coin from Central or South America.
- Ellipsis of macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus).
- Synonym of Italian (“a person from Italy or of Italian ethnicity”).
- Ellipsis of macaroni tool.
- Synonym of lizard canary.
- A mix of languages in macaronic verse.
- Nonsense; meaningless talk.
- A macaroon.
Adj
- Chic, fashionable, stylish; in the manner of a macaroni.
Origin / Etymology
From Italian maccaroni, plural of maccarone, obsolete variant of maccheroni (“macaroni, fool”), of uncertain origin. Variously derived from late Byzantine Greek μακαρία (makaría, “food made from barley”), from Ancient Greek μακάριος (makários, “blessed, favored by the gods”), and from maccare (“to bruise, to crush”), archaic variant of ammaccare, from Latin maccāre (“to bruise, to crush”). Compare Sicilian maccarruni (“a single piece of macaroni”). As a fop, apparently from the British Macaroni Club rather than from Italian use of maccarone for fools and bumpkins. As a former form of currency, used to calque Spanish macuquino, 18th-century colonial Spanish slang for a similarly clipped coin.
Synonyms
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Scrabble Score: 12
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