Macaroni

/mɑk.əˈɹəʊ.ni/ · noun

Meaning

(uncountable) A type of pasta in the form of short tubes, typically boiled and served in soup, with a sauce, or in melted cheese; a dish of this..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) A type of pasta in the form of short tubes, typically boiled and served in soup, with a sauce, or in melted cheese; a dish of this.
2. (uncountable, obsolete or informal, loosely) Pasta, particularly thicker noodles, spaghetti.
3. (uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of gnocchi (“Italian dumpling made of potato or semolina”).
4. (countable, chiefly historical and derogatory) A dandy or fop, particularly in the 18th century a young Englishman who had travelled in Europe and subsequently dressed and spoke in an ostentatiously affected Continental manner.
5. (countable, Caribbean, now historical, numismatics) A 19th-century quarter-silver dollar coin, typically a full 2-real coin or a quarter clipping of an 8-real coin from Central or South America.
6. (countable, zoology) Ellipsis of macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus).
7. (countable, ethnic slur) Synonym of Italian (“a person from Italy or of Italian ethnicity”).
8. (countable, obsolete) Ellipsis of macaroni tool.

Example Sentences

Take half a pound of small pipe-macaroni.

"I can recommend this macaroni, for it is my favourite dish: I am very national. You will not take any? Ah, young ladies are, or ought to be, light eaters. Your ladyship will, I trust, set your fair companion an example."

MACARONI... is a preparation of wheat originally peculiar to Italy, in which country it is an article of food of national importance. The same substance in different forms is also known as vermicelli, pasta or Italian pastes, taglioni, fanti, &c.

Paste made into strings like pack-thread or thongs of whit-leather (which if greater they call Macaroni, if lesser Vermicelli) they cut in pieces and put in their pots as we do oat-meal to make their menestra or broth of.

Maccaróni, a kind of meat made of round peeces of paste, boyled in water and put into a dish with butter, spice and grated-cheese vpon them.

He doth learne to make ſtrange ſauces, to eat ænchouies, maccaroni, bouoli, fagioli, and cauiare, becauſe hee loues ’hem; […]

... the Maccaroni Club (which is composed of all the travelled young men who wear long curls and spying-glasses) ...

Lady Falkener's daughter is to be married to a young rich Mr. Crewe, a Macarone...

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Word Forms

• macaronis
• macaronies
• maccaroni
• maccheroni
• mac
• more macaroni
• most macaroni

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