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
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.]
• (fop): See Thesaurus:dandy
• elbow macaroni
• See also pasta
• 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
5 December 2024
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