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MACARONIC
macaronic
(adjective) of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular words jumbled together; “macaronic verse”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
macaronic (comparative more macaronic, superlative most macaronic)
(archaic) jumbled, mixed
(literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
(dated) Like a macaroni or dandy; foppish, trifling, affected.
Noun
macaronic (plural macaronics)
(literature) A work of macaronic character.
(linguistic morphology) A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages, one of which is Latin, or a non-Latin stem with a Latin ending.
Anagrams
• carcinoma, maccaroni
Source: Wiktionary
Mac`a*ro"ni*an, Mac`a*ron"ic, a. [Cf. It. maccheronico, F. macaronique.]
1. Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.
2. Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.
Mac`a*ron"ic, n.
1. A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble.
2. A kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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IMPROVISED
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