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macaroni
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)
- (uncountable) A type of pasta in the form of short tubes; sometimes loosely, pasta in general. [from 17th c.]
- (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.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. XI:
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)
- (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)
- 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)
- (usually in the plural) macaroni
- (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
macaroni From the web:
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rigatoni
English
Etymology
From Italian rigatoni.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?????to?ni/
Noun
rigatoni (usually uncountable, plural rigatonis)
- A ribbed tubular form of pasta, larger than penne but with square-cut ends, often slightly curved.
Translations
Anagrams
- ignorati, ratioing, rigation
Italian
Noun
rigatoni m
- plural of rigatone
- rigatoni
Anagrams
- ignorati
rigatoni From the web:
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