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macaroni

English

(wikipedia macaroni)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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:
    • 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.
  • * 1997 , (Thomas Pynchon), Mason & Dixon :
    • 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 also

    Derived terms

    * macaroni and cheese * macaroni cheese * macaroni penguin

    Related terms

    * macaronic

    See also

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    Anagrams

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    maccas

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Macca's

    Noun

    (-)
  • (Australia, NZ, slang) The chain of fast food restaurants.
  • * 1998 , James Roy, Full Moon Racing , page 25,
    • “Then of course there?s Maccas food, which is uniformly mediocre no matter where you go.”
  • * 2010 , , The Happiest Refugee , page 103,
    • Because it was the first-ever Maccas to open in Australia, to commemorate its last day there was going to be a never-seen-before special. It read: ‘bring this flyer in and get a Big Mac for fifty cents’.
    Fifty cents! Whoo-hoooo!
  • * 2011 , Angus Benson, Down South'', in University of Technology, Sydney, ''The Life You Chose and That Chose You: The 25th UTS Writers' Anthology , unnumbered page,
    • We slowed down just the once to pick up drive-thru from Maccas . I paid for my own food, but Mul and Seano reckoned they had no money.
  • (surfing, slang) The surf break Macaronis''; ''plural of macaroni in Indonesia .
  • * 2005 , Attol Travel [http://www.atolltravel.com/default.htm?http://www.atolltravel.com/Indo/IndonesiaMacaronis.htm]
    • Just two minute's boat ride from the resort, Macaronis (or 'Maccas'), is a perfectly shaped left-hand barrel that works on all tides,

    Synonyms

    * (McDonalds) Mickey D's (UK)