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macaroni en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

(Southern-England) audio
măk'ə-rōʹnē (US)
/ˌmæk.əˈɹoʊ.ni/ (US)
/mæk.əˈɹəʊ.ni/ (UK)

Etymology

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).

Meanings

(historical) Chic, fashionable, stylish; in the manner of a macaroni.

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Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
maccaroni		alternative	lexicographic
more macaroni	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
most macaroni	Degree=Sup		lexicographic

wikipedia: Macaroni Club

macaroni en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

(Southern-England) audio
măk'ə-rōʹnē (US)
/ˌmæk.əˈɹoʊ.ni/ (US)
/mæk.əˈɹəʊ.ni/ (UK)

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(uncountable) 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.
- "I can recommend this macaroni, for it is my favourite dish: I am very national. You will not take any? Ah, young ladies are, or ought to be, light eaters. Your ladyship will, I trust, set your fair companion an example." 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 32:
- Take half a pound of small pipe-macaroni. 1778, Hannah Glasse, The Art of Cookery..., new ed., p. 124
(broadly, informal, obsolete, uncountable) Pasta, particularly thicker noodles, spaghetti.
- MACARONI... is a preparation of wheat originally peculiar to Italy, in which country it is an article of food of national importance. The same substance in different forms is also known as vermicelli, pasta or Italian pastes, taglioni, fanti, &c. 1883, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XV, s.v.
- Paste made into strings like pack-thread or thongs of whit-leather (which if greater they call Macaroni, if lesser Vermicelli) they cut in pieces and put in their pots as we do oat-meal to make their menestra or broth of. 1673, John Ray, Observations..., page 405:
(obsolete, uncountable) Synonym of gnocchi (“Italian dumpling made of potato or semolina”).
- Maccaróni, a kind of meat made of round peeces of paste, boyled in water and put into a dish with butter, spice and grated-cheese vpon them. 1611, John Florio, Queen Anna's New World of Words, s.v:
- He doth learne to make ſtrange ſauces, to eat ænchouies, maccaroni, bouoli, fagioli, and cauiare, becauſe hee loues ’hem; […] 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii, page 203:
(countable, derogatory, historical) 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.
- 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. 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
- A small, noisy party of Fops, Macaronis, or Lunarians,—it is difficult quite to distinguish which,—has been working its way up the street. 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
- ... the Maccaroni Club (which is composed of all the travelled young men who wear long curls and spying-glasses) ... 1764 February 6, Horace Walpole, letter to the Earl of Hertford
- There is indeed a kind of animal, neither male nor female, a thing of the neuter gender, lately started up amongst us. It is called a Macaroni. It talks without meaning, it smiles without pleasantry, it eats without appetite, it rides without exercise, it wenches without passion. 1770 June, Oxford Magazine, page 228:
- Lady Falkener's daughter is to be married to a young rich Mr. Crewe, a Macarone... 1764 May 27, Horace Walpole, letter to the Earl of Hertford
- I wanted you to be a man of spirit; your ambition was to appear a first-rate Macaroni; you are returned fully qualified, and determined, I see, to shew the world what a contemptible creature an English-man dwindles into, when he adopts the follies and vices of other nations. 1773, Robert Hitchcock, The Macaroni, Act I
- 'Sure never were seen two such beautiful Ponies; Other Horses are Clowns—and these macaronies 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii:
(Caribbean, countable, historical) 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.
- The silver coins are dollars (6s. 8d.), half dollars, and quarter dollars, or maccaronies as they are here popularly called. 1808, John Stewart, An Account of Jamaica..., page 59:
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis) Ellipsis of macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus).
alt of macaroni penguin
- 15 penguins were hatched and reared in the Edinburgh Zoo—seven kings, four gentoos, three maccaronis, and one ringed. 1955 May 16, The Times, page 5:
(countable, ethnic, slur) Synonym of Italian (“a person from Italy or of Italian ethnicity”).
- Surely I shall always be able, go where I will, among frogs or maccaronis, to procure sucre noir, or inchiostro nero. 1845 December 15, Frances Anne Kemble, letter
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, obsolete) Ellipsis of macaroni tool.
alt of macaroni tool
- Now take the maccaroni and cut away the wood on either side of the vein... 1867, George Alfred Rogers, The Art of Wood Carving, page 12:
(Scotland, countable, obsolete) Synonym of lizard canary.
- Lizards are known among Scotchmen as ‘macaronies’. 1876, Robert Linlithgow Wallace, The Canary Book, page 165:
(obsolete, uncountable) A mix of languages in macaronic verse.
- ... political songs in Latin or in a maccaroni of Latin and English ... 1884, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Six Centuries of Work and Wages, volume I, page 166:
(Australia, slang, uncountable) Nonsense; meaningless talk.
- Yes. Jam, macaroni, cockadoodle. We're plain people out hereaways, not mantle ornaments. 1924, D. H. Lawrence et al., The Boy in the Bush, page 46:

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Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
macaronies	Number=Plur		lexicographic
maccaroni		alternative	lexicographic
macaronis	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (48)

fa ماکارونی (type of pasta) · fr macaronis (type of pasta) · it maccheroni (type of pasta) · vi macarôni (type of pasta) · de Makkaroni (type of pasta) · pl rurki (type of pasta) · scn maccarruna (type of pasta) · fi makaroni (type of pasta) · es codito (type of pasta) · ms laksa geronggang (type of pasta) · tr makarna (type of pasta) · id makaroni (type of pasta) · la collȳra (type of pasta) · no makaroni (type of pasta) · fa نیرشته (type of pasta) · cmn 通心粉 (type of pasta) · ru рожки́ (type of pasta) · vi mì ống cong (type of pasta) · ka მაკარონი (type of pasta) · hy մակարոն (type of pasta) · ko 마카로니 (type of pasta) · pt macarrão (type of pasta) · sv makaroner (type of pasta) · ru макаро́ны (type of pasta) · es macarrón (type of pasta) · ar مَكَرُونَة (type of pasta) · mt imqarrun (type of pasta) · yue 通粉 (type of pasta) · mr मॅकारोनी (type of pasta) · es macarrones (type of pasta) · et makaronid (type of pasta) · cmn 通心麵 /通心面 (type of pasta) · sh makarone (type of pasta) · ja マカロニ (type of pasta) · alt макарон (type of pasta) · ms makaroni (type of pasta) · ar مَعْكَرُونَة (type of pasta) · gd macaroni (type of pasta) · hu csőtészta (type of pasta) · el κοφτό μακαρονάκι (type of pasta) · nl macaroni (type of pasta) · vi mì ống (type of pasta) · cs makaróny (type of pasta) · uk макаро́ни (type of pasta) · yi מאַקאַראָנען (type of pasta) · sh макароне (type of pasta) · yue 通心粉 (type of pasta) · hu makaróni (type of pasta)

wikipedia: Macaroni Club

macaroni en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

/mak.əˈɹəʊ.ni/ (UK)
(Southern-England) audio
/ˌmækəˈɹoʊni/ (US)
măk'ə-rōʹnē (US)

Etymology

From French macaron. Doublet of macaron.

Meanings

(obsolete) A macaroon.
- Macaroni. It comes from Italy. It is a biscuit made of almonds, eggs, flower, and sugar. 1777, Charlotte Mason, The lady's assistant for regulating and supplying her table: being a complete system of cookery, containing one hundred and fifty select bills of fare, properly disposed for family dinners ... with upwards of fifty bills of fare for suppers ... and several desserts: including likewise, the fullest and choicest receipts of various kinds ...^(http://books.google.com/books?id=14IEAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22paste%22+Italy+(%22macaroni%22+OR+%22maccheroni%22+OR+%22spaghetti%22)&source=gbs_navlinks_s) (cooking), page 300:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
maccaroni		alternative	lexicographic
macaronis	Number=Plur		lexicographic

macaroni en · ADJ · etymology 1

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macaroni en · NOUN · etymology 2

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