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macaroni

noun
/mɑk.əˈɹəʊ.ni/UK/ˌmæk.əˈɹoʊ.ni/US/mak.əˈɹəʊ.ni/UK/ˌmækəˈɹoʊni/US

Etymology

From Italian maccaroni (plural of maccarone (archaic variant of maccheroni (“fool”))), of uncertain origin. Variously derived from late Byzantine Greek μακαρία (makaría, “food made from barley”), from Ancient Greek μάκαρ (mákar, “blessed; favored by the gods”), or from maccare (archaic variant of ammaccare (“to bruise; to crush”)), from Latin maccāre of the same meaning. 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 slang for a similarly clipped coin).

  1. derived from macuquino
  2. derived from macco
  3. derived from μάκαρ
  4. derived from μακαρία
  5. borrowed from maccaroni

Definitions

  1. A type of pasta in the form of short tubes, typically boiled and served in soup, with a…

    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.

    • Take half a pound of small pipe-macaroni.
    • "I can recommend this macaroni, for it is my favourite dish: I am very national. You will not take any? Ah, young ladies are, or ought to be, light eaters. Your ladyship will, I trust, set your fair companion an example."

  2. Pasta, particularly thicker noodles, spaghetti.

    • Paste made into strings like pack-thread or thongs of whit-leather (which if greater they call Macaroni, if lesser Vermicelli) they cut in pieces and put in their pots as we do oat-meal to make their menestra or broth of.

  3. Synonym of gnocchi (“Italian dumpling made of potato or semolina”).

    • Maccaróni, a kind of meat made of round peeces of paste, boyled in water and put into a dish with butter, spice and grated-cheese vpon them.
    • He doth learne to make ſtrange ſauces, to eat ænchouies, maccaroni, bouoli, fagioli, and cauiare, becauſe hee loues ’hem; […]
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    1. A dandy or fop, particularly in the 18th century a young Englishman who had travelled in…

      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.

      • ... the Maccaroni Club (which is composed of all the travelled young men who wear long curls and spying-glasses) ...
      • Lady Falkener's daughter is to be married to a young rich Mr. Crewe, a Macarone...

    2. A 19th-century quarter-silver dollar coin, typically a full 2-real coin or a quarter…

      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.

      • The silver coins are dollars (6s. 8d.), half dollars, and quarter dollars, or maccaronies as they are here popularly called.

    3. Ellipsis of macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus).

      • 15 penguins were hatched and reared in the Edinburgh Zoo—seven kings, four gentoos, three maccaronis, and one ringed.

    4. Synonym of Italian (“a person from Italy or of Italian ethnicity”).

      • Surely I shall always be able, go where I will, among frogs or maccaronis, to procure sucre noir, or inchiostro nero.

    5. Ellipsis of macaroni tool.

      • Now take the maccaroni and cut away the wood on either side of the vein...

    6. Synonym of lizard canary.

      • Lizards are known among Scotchmen as ‘macaronies’.

    7. A mix of languages in macaronic verse.

      • ... political songs in Latin or in a maccaroni of Latin and English ...

    8. Nonsense

      Nonsense; meaningless talk.

      • Yes. Jam, macaroni, cockadoodle. We're plain people out hereaways, not mantle ornaments.

    9. Chic, fashionable, stylish

      Chic, fashionable, stylish; in the manner of a macaroni.

    10. A macaroon.

      • Macaroni. It comes from Italy. It is a biscuit made of almonds, eggs, flower, and sugar.

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Derived

beefaroni, Chinese macaroni, elbow macaroni, holy macaroni, mac and cheesy, macaronian, macaroni and cheese, macaroni and gravy, macaroni cane, macaroni cheese, macaroni dealer, macaroni dress, macaroni fiddle, macaroni gin, macaroni intelligencer, macaroni marquis, macaroni penguin, macaroni philosopher, macaroni pie, macaroni pudding, macaroni salad, macaroni shrug, macaronism, macaroni soup, macaroni stake, macaroni stall, macaroni tool, macaroni train, macaroni wheat, macaronyish, monkeyrony, pipe macaroni, stuffaroni, tenderoni

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA