Macaroni
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English
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Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
Corruption of Italian maccheroni, macaroni
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Noun
macaroni (uncountable)
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A type of pasta in the form of short tubes.
- (used by Italian-Americans, especially in Philadelphia and New Jersey) A generic term for pasta.
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Derived terms
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Translations
type of pasta
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generic term for pasta See pasta
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Etymology 2
Adopted by those who had visited Italy on the Grand Tour to mean anything fashionable
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Noun
macaroni (plural macaronies)
- (pejorative) In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a man who dressed and often spoke in an ostentatiously affected and effeminate manner.
- A sort of droll or fool; a fop; â applied especially to English fops of about 1775.
Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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