macaroni

English

Wikipedia

The type of macaroni called penne.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /mæk.əˈɹəʊ.ni/, SAMPA: /m{k.@"r\@U.ni/
• (US) enPR: măk'ə-rōʹnē, IPA: /ˌmækəˈɹoʊni/, SAMPA: /%m{k@"r\oUni/
• Rhymes: -əʊni

Etymology 1

Simplifcation of Italian maccheroni (“macaroni”)

Noun

macaroni (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) A type of pasta in the form of short tubes.
2. (used by Italian-Americans, especially in Philadelphia and New Jersey) A generic term for pasta.

Hyponyms

• elbow macaroni

Derived terms

• macaroni and cheese
• macaroni cheese
• macaroni penguin

Related terms

• macaronic

Translations

type of pasta

Bosnian: makarone f. pl. Croatian: makarone f. pl. Czech: makaróny (cs) m. pl. Dutch: macaroni (nl) Finnish: makaroni (fi) French: macaronis (fr) m. pl. German: Makkaroni (de) pl. Italian: maccheroni (it) m. pl.

Japanese: マカロニ (ja) (makaroni) Portuguese: macarrão (pt) m. Russian: рожки (ru) pl. Serbian: Cyrillic: макароне f. pl. Roman: makarone f. pl. Turkish: makarna (tr)

generic pasta — see pasta

Etymology 2

Adopted by those who had visited Italy on the Grand Tour to mean anything fashionable

Noun

macaroni (plural macaronies)

1. (pejorative) In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a man who dressed and often spoke in an ostentatiously affected and effeminate manner.
2. A sort of droll or fool; a fop; – applied especially to English fops of about 1775.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

See also

• Wikipedia article on macaroni (pasta)
• Wikipedia article on macaronies

Anagrams

• armonica, marocain, Romanica

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ma.ka.ʁɔ.ni/

Noun

macaroni m. (plural macaronis)

1. (usually plural) macaroni

Anagrams

• Marocain, marocain