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macaronicism

noun

Etymology

From macaronic + -ism.

  1. suffixed as macaronicism — “macaronic + ism”

Definitions

  1. The use of macaronic language

    The use of macaronic language; The mixing of two or more languages in a single work.

    • Before quitting this division of macaronicism, we must not forget the amusing specimen given by Molière in the troisième intermede of Le Malade Imaginaire , where Argan the invalid is to be admitted a doctor .
    • Klymasz argues that macaronicism is a comic device in The Street Where I Live, but he stops short of discussing the ways Haas uses macaronic humour to undermine the dominance of Anglo-Canadian culture.
    • Readers of seventeenth-century Polish texts— from baroque poetry through polemical pamphlets to forensic prose—are used to deciphering Polish-Latin macaronicisms.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for macaronicism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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