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English

Alternative forms

• (a fop, a dandy): maccaroni

Etymology

From Italian maccaroni, obsolete variant of maccheroni (“macaroni”), plural of maccherone, possibly from maccare (“bruise, batter, crush”), which is of unknown origin, or from late Ancient Greek ??????? (makaría, “food made from barley”).Compare Sicilian maccarruni (“a single piece of macaroni”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mak.?????.ni/
• (US) enPR: m?k'?-r??n?, IPA^(key): /?mæk???o?ni/
• Rhymes: -??ni

Noun

macaroni (countable and uncountable, plural macaronis or macaronies)

1. (uncountable) A type of pasta in the form of short tubes; sometimes loosely, pasta in general. [from 17th c.]
2. (derogatory, historical) A fop, a dandy; especially a young man in the 18th century who had travelled in Europe and who dressed and often spoke in an ostentatiously affected Continental manner. [from 17th c.]
   • 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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:macaroni.

Synonyms

• (fop): See Thesaurus:dandy

Hyponyms

• elbow macaroni
• See also Thesaurus:pasta

Derived terms

Related terms

• macaronic

Translations

Adjective

macaroni (comparative more macaroni, superlative most macaroni)

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

See also

• Wikipedia article on macaroni (pasta)
• Wikipedia article on macaronies

Anagrams

• Marocain, armoniac, armonica, marocain

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

macaroni m (uncountable)

1. macaroni

French

Etymology

From Italian maccaroni, obsolete variant of maccheroni (“macaroni”), plural of maccherone, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ka.??.ni/

Noun

macaroni m (plural macaronis)

1. (usually in the plural) macaroni
2. (ethnic slur) wop; a person of Italian descent.

Synonyms

• rital

Derived terms

• macaroni chinois

Further reading

• “macaroni” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• Marocain, marocain

English

Alternative forms

• macaroon

Etymology

Borrowed from French macaron. Doublet of macaroon.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mæk????n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m?k???o?n/

Noun

macaron (plural macarons)

1. Any of various pastries based on almond and egg white, traditionally made in France.

Derived terms

• macaronage

Translations

See also

• macaroon

Anagrams

• Carmona, Marcano, camaron, narcoma

Finnish

Alternative forms

• macaroon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?k?ron/, [?m?k?ro?n]
• Syllabification: ma?ca?ron

Noun

macaron

1. macaron (small pastry or cookie made with almond)

Declension

Synonyms

• macaron-leivos

French

Etymology

Sixteenth century, from Italian maccarone, see macaroni.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ka.???/

Noun

macaron m (plural macarons)

1. macaron (pastry)
   • 1873, Émile Zola, Le Ventre de Paris:

     […] et elle était encore attendrie par les bocaux pleins de gâteaux secs, de macarons et de madeleines.

2. buns rolled over the ears and worn symmetrically
   • 1948, Maurice Druon, Les Grandes Familles:

     Marie-Hélène avait changé de coiffure; elle portait maintenant deux nattes qu'elle roulait en macarons sur ses oreilles.

3. round insignia

See also

• macaron on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Descendants

• English: macaron
  • English: macaroon

Further reading

• “macaron” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).