Macaronic vs Macaroni - What's the difference?
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(archaic) jumbled, mixed
(literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
(literature) A work of macaronic character.
(morphology) A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages, one of which is Latin, or a non-Latin stem with a Latin ending.
(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 :
Macaroni is a related term of macaronic.
As nouns the difference between macaronic and macaroni
is that macaronic is a work of macaronic character while macaroni is a type of pasta in the form of short tubes; sometimes loosely, pasta in general.As an adjective macaronic
is jumbled, mixed.macaronic
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(Macaronic language)Alternative forms
* macaronick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
*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.
