macaroni

• (a fop, a dandy): maccaroni

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mak.əˈɹəʊ.ni/

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• (US) enPR: măk'ə-rōʹnē, IPA^(key): /ˌmækəˈɹoʊni/
• Rhymes: -əʊni

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.]
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 32:

     "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."

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.]
   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii:

     'Sure never were seen two such beautiful Ponies;

     Other Horses are Clowns—and these macaronies

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., OCLC 34363729:

     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.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:macaroni.

• (fop): See Thesaurus:dandy

• elbow macaroni
• See also Thesaurus:pasta

• macaronic

• → Japanese: マカロニ (makaroni)
• → Korean: 마카로니 (makaroni)
• → Scottish Gaelic: macaroni

macaroni (comparative more macaroni, superlative most macaroni)

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

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

From French macaron. Doublet of macaron.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mak.əˈɹəʊ.ni/

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• (US) enPR: măk'ə-rōʹnē, IPA^(key): /ˌmækəˈɹoʊni/
• Rhymes: -əʊni

macaroni (plural macaronis)

1. (obsolete) A macaroon.

   • 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 ... (cooking), pages 436:

     Macaroni. It comes from Italy. It is a biscuit made of almonds, eggs, flower, and sugar.

• Marciano, Marocain, armoniac, armonica, marocain

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macaroni m (uncountable)

1. macaroni

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

• IPA^(key): /ma.ka.ʁɔ.ni/

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des macaronis

macaroni m (plural macaronis)

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

• rital

• macaroni chinois

• “macaroni”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• Marocain, marocain

From English macaroni, from Italian maccheroni.

macaroni m

1. macaroni