macaroni

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mac=a=ro=ni

CIDE DICTIONARY

macaroni, n. [Prov. It. macaroni, It. maccheroni, fr. Gr. happiness, later, a funeral feast, fr. blessed, happy. Prob. so called because eaten at such feasts in honor of the dead; cf. Gr. blessed, i. e., dead. Cf. Macaroon.].

•  Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of a wheat flour such as semolina, and used as an article of food; a form of Italian pasta.  [1913 Webster]

  " A paste similarly prepared is largely used as food in Persia, India, and China, but is not commonly made tubular like the Italian macaroni."  Balfour (Cyc. of India).  [1913 Webster]
•  A medley; something droll or extravagant.  [1913 Webster]
•  A sort of droll or fool.  Addison.  [1913 Webster]
•  A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775, who affected the mannerisms and clothing of continental Europe.  Goldsmith.  [1913 Webster]
•  The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.  W. Irving.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

macaroni, n.
1 a tubular variety of pasta.
2 (pl. macaronies) hist. an 18th-c. British dandy affecting Continental fashions.

Etymology

It. maccaroni f. late Gk makaria food made from barley

THESAURUS

macaroni

Beau Brummel, Italian paste, beau, blade, blood, boulevardier, buck, clotheshorse, coxcomb, dandy, dude, dumpling, exquisite, fashion plate, fedellini, fettuccine, fine gentleman, fop, fribble, gallant, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, knaydlach, lady-killer, lasagne, lounge lizard, man-about-town, masher, matzo balls, noodles, pasta, paste, puppy, ravioli, spaetzle, spaghetti, spaghettini, spark, sport, swell, vermicelli, won ton, ziti

ROGET THESAURUS

macaroni

Fop

N fop, fine gentleman, swell, dandy, dandiprat, exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town, fast man, fribble, milliner, Jemmy Jessamy, carpet knight, masher, dude, fine lady, coquette, flirt, vamp.