• maccaroni
• (pasta):maccheroni,mac

FromItalianmaccaroni, plural ofmaccarone, obsolete variant ofmaccheroni(“macaroni,fool”), of uncertain origin. Variously derived from lateByzantine Greekμακαρία(makaría,“foodmade frombarley”), fromAncient Greekμακάριος(makários,“blessed,favored by thegods”), and frommaccare(“tobruise, tocrush”), archaic variant ofammaccare, fromLatinmaccāre(“tobruise, tocrush”). CompareSicilianmaccarruni(“a single piece of macaroni”). As a fop, apparently from the BritishMacaroni Club rather than from Italian use ofmaccarone for fools and bumpkins. As a former form of currency, used to calqueSpanishmacuquino, 18th-century colonial Spanish slang for a similarly clipped coin.

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macaroni (countable anduncountable,pluralmacaronisormacaronies)

1. (uncountable) Atype ofpasta in theform ofshorttubes,typicallyboiled andserved insoup, with asauce, or inmeltedcheese; adish of this.[from 18th c.]

   Hyponyms:elbow macaroni,pipe macaroni

   • 1778, Hannah Glasse,The Art of Cookery..., new ed., p. 124:

     Take half a pound of small pipe-macaroni.

   • 1831,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, inRomance and Reality. […], volume III, London:Henry Colburn andRichard Bentley, […],→OCLC,page32:

     "I can recommend thismacaroni, 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. (uncountable,obsolete orinformal,loosely)Pasta,particularlythickernoodles,spaghetti.[from 17th c.]

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus:pasta

   • 1673, John Ray,Observations..., page405:

     Paste made into strings like pack-thread or thongs of whit-leather (which if greater they callMacaroni, if lesserVermicelli) they cut in pieces and put in their pots as we dooat-meal to make their menestra or broth of.

   • 1883,Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XV,s.v.:

     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 asvermicelli, pasta or Italian pastes,taglioni,fanti,&c.

3. (uncountable,obsolete)Synonym ofgnocchi(“Italiandumpling made ofpotato orsemolina”).[17th c.]
   • 1611, John Florio,Queen Anna's New World of Words, s.v:

     Maccaróni, a kind ofmeat made of roundpeeces ofpaste,boyled in water and put into a dish with butter, spice and grated-cheesevpon them.

   • 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e.,Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, inThe Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London:[…]Will[iam] Stansby, published1616,→OCLC, Act II, scene iii,page203:

     He doth learne to make ſtrange ſauces, to eatænchouies,maccaroni,bouoli,fagioli, andcauiare, becauſe hee loues ’hem;[…]

4. (countable, chieflyhistorical andderogatory) Adandy orfop,particularly in the 18thcentury ayoungEnglishman who hadtravelled inEurope andsubsequentlydressed andspoke in anostentatiouslyaffectedContinentalmanner.[from 17th c.]

   Synonyms:cockscomb,popinjay,poseur;see alsoThesaurus:dandy

   • 1764 February 6, Horace Walpole, letter to the Earl of Hertford:

     ... theMaccaroni Club (which is composed of all the travelled young men who wear long curls and spying-glasses) ...

   • 1764 May 27, Horace Walpole, letter to the Earl of Hertford:

     Lady Falkener's daughter is to be married to a young rich Mr. Crewe, aMacarone...

   • 1770 June,Oxford Magazine, page228:

     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 aMacaroni. It talks without meaning, it smiles without pleasantry, it eats without appetite, it rides without exercise, it wenches without passion.

   • 1773, Robert Hitchcock,TheMacaroni, Act I:

     I wanted you to be a man of spirit; your ambition was to appear a first-rateMacaroni; you are returned fully qualified, and determined, I see, toshew the world what a contemptible creature an English-man dwindles into, when he adopts the follies and vices of other nations.

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

     'Sure never were seen two such beautiful Ponies;
     Other Horses are Clowns—and thesemacaronies

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

     Delicate lace ruffles fell over the lean yellow hands that were so overladen with rings. He had been amacaroni 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, orLunarians,—it is difficult quite to distinguish which,—has been working its way up the street.

5. (countable,Caribbean, nowhistorical,numismatics) A 19th-centuryquarter-silver dollarcoin,typically afull 2-realcoin or aquarterclipping of an 8-realcoin fromCentral orSouth America.[from 19th c.]
   • 1808, John Stewart,An Account of Jamaica..., page59:

     The silver coins aredollars (6s. 8d.), half dollars, and quarter dollars, ormaccaronies as they are here popularly called.

6. (countable,zoology)Ellipsis ofmacaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus).[from 19th c.]
   • 1955 May 16,The Times, page 5:

     15 penguins were hatched and reared in the Edinburgh Zoo—seven kings, fourgentoos, threemaccaronis, and one ringed.

7. (countable,ethnicslur)Synonym ofItalian(“aperson fromItaly or ofItalianethnicity”).[from 19th c.]
   • 1845 December 15, Frances Anne Kemble, letter:

     Surely I shall always be able, go where I will, amongfrogs ormaccaronis, to procuresucre noir, orinchiostro nero.

8. (countable,obsolete)Ellipsis ofmacaroni tool.[from 19th c.]
   • 1867, George Alfred Rogers,The Art of Wood Carving, page12:

     Now take themaccaroni and cut away the wood on either side of the vein...

9. (countable,Scotland,zoology,obsolete)Synonym oflizard canary.[from 19th c.]
   • 1876, Robert Linlithgow Wallace,The Canary Book, page165:

     Lizards are known among Scotchmen as ‘macaronies’.

10. (uncountable,literature,obsolete) Amix oflanguages inmacaronicverse.[from 19th c.]
    • 1884, James Edwin Thorold Rogers,Six Centuries of Work and Wages, volume I, page166:

      ... political songs in Latin or in amaccaroni of Latin and English ...

11. (uncountable,Australia,slang)Nonsense;meaninglesstalk.

    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:nonsense

    • 1924, D. H. Lawrenceet al.,The Boy in the Bush, page46:

      Yes.Jam,macaroni,cockadoodle. We're plain people outhereaways, not mantle ornaments.

• macaronic

• → Japanese:マカロニ(makaroni)
• → Korean:마카로니(makaroni)
• → Malay:
  • Arabic script:ماكاروني
  • Latin script:makaroni
• → Scottish Gaelic:macaroni

macaroni (comparativemoremacaroni,superlativemostmacaroni)

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

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

FromFrenchmacaron.Doublet ofmacaron.

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macaroni (pluralmacaronis)

1. (obsolete) Amacaroon.
   • 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 ...‎^[1] (cooking),page300:

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

• Marciano,Marocain,armoniac,armonica,marocain

• “macaroni,n.”, inOED Online ⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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macaroni m (uncountable)

1. macaroni

• → Indonesian:makaroni

Borrowed fromItalianmaccaroni, obsolete variant ofmaccheroni(“macaroni”), plural ofmaccherone, of uncertain origin.

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macaroni m (pluralmacaronis)

1. (usually in theplural)macaroni

• macaroni chinois

• → Polish:makaron

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

• Marocain,marocain

FromEnglishmacaroni, fromItalianmaccheroni.

macaroni m

1. macaroni

• IPA^(key):/makaˈɾoni/[ma.kaˈɾo.ni]
• Rhymes:-oni
• Syllabification:ma‧ca‧ro‧ni

macaroni m (pluralmacaronis)

1. macaroni