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Vermicelli vs Macaroni - What's the difference?

vermicelli | macaroni |

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

Noun

(-)
  • long, slender pasta, similar to spaghetti, only thinner.
  • 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.

    Hyponyms

    * elbow macaroni * See also

    Derived terms

    * macaroni and cheese * macaroni cheese * macaroni penguin

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