Macaroni

Quick meaning: Macaroni is a noun meaning (uncountable, obsolete or informal, loosely) Pasta, particularly thicker noodles, spaghetti.

Meaning

(uncountable, obsolete or informal, loosely) Pasta, particularly thicker noodles, spaghetti.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of gnocchi (“Italian dumpling made of potato or semolina”).
2. (countable, zoology) Ellipsis of macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus).
3. (countable, ethnic slur) Synonym of Italian (“a person from Italy or of Italian ethnicity”).
4. (countable, obsolete) Ellipsis of macaroni tool.
5. (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.
6. (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.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

Take half a pound of small pipe-macaroni.

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

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

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

Word Forms

• macaronis
• macaronies
• maccaroni
• maccheroni
• mac

Synonyms for macaroni

Depending on context, synonyms include noodle, pasta, paste, gnocchi, cockscomb, popinjay.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pasta, pulp, ziti, cavatappi, spaghetti, macaroni and cheese.

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