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adj
Chic, fashionable, stylish; in the manner of a macaroni.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
A type of pasta in the form of short tubes, typically boiled and served in soup, with a sauce, or in melted cheese; a dish of this.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Pasta, particularly thicker noodles, spaghetti.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, informal, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: macaroni, noodle, pasta, paste
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Synonym of gnocchi (“Italian dumpling made of potato or semolina”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: gnocchi
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A dandy or fop, particularly in the 18th century a young Englishman who had travelled in Europe and subsequently dressed and spoke in an ostentatiously affected Continental manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, derogatory, historical
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Synonyms: cockscomb, popinjay, poseur, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, dandy, dike, dood, dude, dudelet, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, fop, foretop, fribble, gallant, go, jack-a-dandy, Jemmy-Jessamy, jetter, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, mignon, petit maître, pretty boy, prig, puss-gentleman, smart, spark, spiff, swell, tippy, toff
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A 19th-century quarter-silver dollar coin, typically a full 2-real coin or a quarter clipping of an 8-real coin from Central or South America.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Caribbean, countable, historical
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, numismatics
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noun
Ellipsis of macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
Synonym of Italian (“a person from Italy or of Italian ethnicity”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, ethnic, slur
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Synonyms: Italian
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Ellipsis of macaroni tool.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, obsolete
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noun
Synonym of lizard canary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, countable, obsolete
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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Synonyms: lizard canary
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A mix of languages in macaronic verse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
Topics: literature, media, publishing
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noun
Nonsense; meaningless talk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, slang, uncountable
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Synonyms: absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, Bandini, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, BS, bull, bullcrap, bulldust, bull feathers, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, dribble, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, Gallophone, garbage, garble, gash, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, Greek, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse cock, horsefeathers, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horseshit, humbug, Irish bull, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, nertz, nonsense, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, prattle, put-on, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot, tosh, trittle trattle, tush, trash, tripe, twaddle, wass, whiff-whaff, word salad
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noun
A macaroon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
pasta in the form of slender tubes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: pasta, alimentary paste
noun
a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse
History
From Italian maccaroni (plural of maccarone (archaic variant of maccheroni (“fool”))), of uncertain origin. Variously derived from late Byzantine Greek μακαρία (makaría, “food made from barley”), from Ancient Greek μάκαρ (mákar, “blessed; favored by the gods”), or from maccare (archaic variant of ammaccare (“to bruise; to crush”)), from Latin maccāre of the same meaning. Compare Sicilian maccarruni (“a single piece of macaroni”). * As a fop, apparently from the British Macaroni Club rather than from Italian use of maccarone for fools and bumpkins. * As a former form of currency, used to calque Spanish macuquino (18th-century colonial slang for a similarly clipped coin).
From French macaron. Doublet of macaron.
Across languages
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