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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