Macaroni

[,mækə'rəʊnɪ] or [,mækə'roni]

Definition

(noun.) pasta in the form of slender tubes.

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

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Definition

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

(n.) A medley; something droll or extravagant.

(n.) A sort of droll or fool.

(n.) A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775.

(n.) The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Italian paste, Genoese paste.[2]. Beau, exquisite, fop, popinjay, coxcomb, jackanapes, jack-a-dandy, man milliner, man of dress, vain fellow.

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Definition

n. a kind of paste or dough prepared from the glutinous granular flour of hard varieties of wheat pressed out through a perforated vessel into long tubes and then dried: a medley: something fanciful and extravagant: a fool: a fop:—pl. Macarō′nis Macarō′nies.—n. Macaron′ic a confused heap a medley: a macaronic poem.—adjs. Macaron′ic Macarō′nian like a macaroni trifling affected: of a kind of burlesque verse consisting of modern words Latinised or Latin words modernised intermixed with genuine Latin words.

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