Vermicelli vs Macaroni - What's the difference?
vermicelli | macaroni |
long, slender pasta, similar to spaghetti, only thinner.
(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 :
As nouns the difference between vermicelli and macaroni
is that vermicelli is long, slender pasta, similar to spaghetti, only thinner while macaroni is a type of pasta in the form of short tubes; sometimes loosely, pasta in general.vermicelli
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(wikipedia vermicelli)Noun
(-)macaroni
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(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.