Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Pasta in any of various hollow shapes, especially short curved tubes.
- noun A well-traveled young Englishman of the 1700s and 1800s who affected foreign customs and manners.
- noun A fop.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vulgar name in Jamaica for a Mexican quarter-dollar, or, afterward, for an English shilling.
- noun A kind of paste or dough prepared, originally and chiefly in Italy, from the glutinous granular flour of hard varieties of wheat, pressed into long tubes or pipes through the perforated bottom of a vessel furnished with mandrels, and afterward dried in the sun or by low heat.
- noun A medley; something extravagant or calculated to please an idle fancy.
- noun A London exquisite of the eighteenth century; a fop; a dandy; a member of the Macaroni Club. See II., 1.
- noun A crested penguin or rock-hopper: a sailors' name. See
penguin , and cut underEudyptes . - Consisting of gay or stylish young men: specifically [capitalized] applied to a London club, founded about the middle of the eighteenth century, composed of young men who had traveled and sought to introduce elegances of dress and bearing from the continent.
- Of or pertaining to macaronis or fops; exquisite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of a wheat flour such as semolina, and used as an article of food; a form of Italian pasta.
- noun A medley; something droll or extravagant.
- noun obsolete A sort of droll or fool.
- noun A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775, who affected the mannerisms and clothing of continental Europe.
- noun (U. S. Hist.) The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms
- noun pasta in the form of slender tubes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Italian term macaroni first appeared in the 13th century and was applied to various shapes, from flat to lumpy.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The Italian term macaroni first appeared in the 13th century and was applied to various shapes, from flat to lumpy.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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What it does mean is building in features that make a home safe and accessible for someone in a wheelchair, someone who has arthritis or trouble with steps, or even someone who is short and shouldn't be balancing on a stool to retrieve hot macaroni from a microwave (a grandchild, for example).
Renovation Revolution Ashlea Ebeling 2008
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It may contain macaroni, and it may contain cheese, but it is not macaroni and cheese.
If geeks talked about cookbooks the way they talk about RPG books « Isegoria 2008
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This creamy four-cheese macaroni is comfort food to some dieters.
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Macaroni Explained if you remember from a previous post, i was questioning the usage of the word macaroni in the song 'yankee doodle'.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darth Larry 2007
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Specialty is a manufacturer of private label macaroni and cheese, skillet dinners and sides and salads.
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Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, produces private label macaroni and cheese, skillet dinners and other value-added side dishes and salads.
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I also recall the macaroni tailor telling me that undergarments such as corsets and panniers were used to create the correct shape of the body that nature stubbornly refused to create.
T and A: The Ideal Shape Heather Carroll 2008
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Charles Fox was once known as a macaroni, despite him being a tad too overweight to look decent in his tight clothing.
Macaronis and Dandies Heather Carroll 2008
ruzuzu commented on the word macaroni
"1. A vulgar name in Jamaica for a Mexican quarter-dollar, or, afterward, for an English shilling."
--CD&C
October 31, 2011