MACARONI

macaroni

(noun) pasta in the form of slender tubes

macaroni

(noun) a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms; “Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

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.]

(pejorative, 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.]

Synonyms

• (fop): See Thesaurus:dandy

Hyponyms

• elbow macaroni

• See also pasta

Anagrams

• Marocain, armoniac, armonica, marocain

Source: Wiktionary


Mac`a*ro"ni, n.; pl. Macaronis (#), or Macaronies. [Prov. It. macaroni, It. maccheroni, fr. Gr. happiness, later, a funeral feast, fr. blessed, happy. Prob. so called because eaten at such feasts in honor of the dead; cf. Gr. blessed, i. e., dead. Cf. Macaroon.]

1. Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.

A paste similarly prepared is largely used as food in Persia, India, and China, but is not commonly made tubular like the Italian macaroni. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

2. A medley; something droll or extravagant.

3. A sort of droll or fool. [Obs.] Addison.

4. A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775. Goldsmith.

5. pl. (U. S. Hist.) The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform. W. Irving.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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