Macaroni vs Dandy - What's the difference?
macaroni | dandy |
(uncountable) A type of pasta in the form of short tubes; sometimes loosely , pasta in general.
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XI:
* 1997 , (Thomas Pynchon), Mason & Dixon :
Like a dandy, foppish.
Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be.
Almost first rate.
A man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.
(British, nautical) A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl.
A dandy roller.
Macaroni is a synonym of dandy.
As nouns the difference between macaroni and dandy
is that macaroni is (uncountable) a type of pasta in the form of short tubes; sometimes loosely , pasta in general while dandy is a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance.As a adjective dandy is
like a dandy, foppish.macaroni
English
(wikipedia macaroni)Noun
(en noun)- Delicate lace ruffles fell over the lean yellow hands that were so overladen with rings. He had been a macaroni of the eighteenth century, and the friend, in his youth, of Lord Ferrars.
- A small, noisy party of Fops, Macaronis , or Lunarians,—it is difficult quite to distinguish which,—has been working its way up the street.
Quotations
(English Citations of "macaroni")Hyponyms
* elbow macaroni * See alsoDerived terms
* macaroni and cheese * macaroni cheese * macaroni penguinSee also
* *Anagrams
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English
Adjective
(er)- That's all fine and dandy , but how much does it cost?
- What a dandy little laptop you have.
