Macaroni
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ma.kəˈɹəʊ.ni/
- US enPR: măk'É™-rÅʹnÄ“, IPA: /ËŒmækəˈɹoÊŠni/
- Rhymes: -əʊni
Origin
From Italian maccaroni, obsolete variant of maccheroni ("macaroni"), plural of maccherone, of uncertain origin.
Full definition of macaroni
Noun
macaroni
(plural macaronis)- (uncountable) A type of pasta in the form of short tubes; sometimes loosely, pasta in general. from 17th c.
- (pejorative, now historical) A fop, a dandy; especially a young man in the 18th century who had travelled in Europe and who dressed and often spoke in an ostentatiously affected Continental manner. from 17th c.
- 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. XI:Delicate lace ruffles fell over the lean yellow hands that were so overladen with rings. He had been a macaroni of the eighteenth century, and the friend, in his youth, of Lord Ferrars.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:A small, noisy party of Fops, Macaronis, or Lunarians,—it is difficult quite to distinguish which,—has been working its way up the street.