Definition of "macaroni" in Englisch

noun

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.

   • Take half a pound of small pipe-macaroni.

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

   • 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.

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.

   • ... 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...
   • I wanted you to be a man of spirit; your ambition was to appear a first-rate Macaroni; you are returned fully qualified, and determined, I see, to shew the world what a contemptible creature an English-man dwindles into, when he adopts the follies and vices of other nations.

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”).

   • Surely I shall always be able, go where I will, among frogs or maccaronis, to procure sucre noir, or inchiostro nero.

8. (countable, obsolete) Ellipsis of macaroni tool.

9. (countable, Scotland, zoology, obsolete) Synonym of lizard canary.

10. (uncountable, literature, obsolete) A mix of languages in macaronic verse.

11. (uncountable, Australia, slang) Nonsense; meaningless talk.

adjective

1. (historical) Chic, fashionable, stylish; in the manner of a macaroni.

noun

1. (obsolete) A macaroon.