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Definition: Macaroni |
MacaroniNoun1. Pasta in the form of slender tubes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "macaroni" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1759. (references) |
Etymology: Macaroni \Mac`a*ro"ni\, noun; plural Macaronis, or Macaronies. [Prov. Italian macaroni, Italian maccheroni, from the Greek expression happiness, later, funeral feast, from blessed, happy. probably so called because eaten at such feasts in honor of the dead; compare Greek for blessed, i. e., dead. Compare to Macaroon.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of eating macaroni, denotes small losses. To see it in large quantities, denotes that you will save money by the strictest economy. For a young woman, this dream means that a stranger will enter her life. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Macaroni A coxcomb (Italian, un macceherone). The word is derived from the Macaroni Club, instituted by a set of flashy men who had travelled in Italy, and introduced Italian maccheroni at Almack's subscription table. The Macaronies were the most exquisite fops that ever disgraced the name of man; vicious, insolent, fond of gambling, drinking, and duelling, they were (about 1773) the curse of Vauxhall Gardens. "We are indebted to the Macaronies for only two things: the one is the introduction of that excellent dish ... macaroni, and the other is the invention of that useful slang word `bore' (boar), which originally meant any opponent of dandyism."- Cassell's Magazine: London Legends. An American regiment raised in Maryland during the War of Independence, was called The Macaronies from its showy uniform. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
1. Macaroni is machine-made dry commercial pasta, used in contrast to fresh pasta made at home or in small local businesses.Thomas Jefferson is credited with bringing the first macaroni machine to the United States in 1789 when he returned home after serving as ambassador to France.
2. In 18th century England, a macaroni was a fashionable man who dressed and even spoke in an outlandishly affected manner. The term pejoratively referred to a person who exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion in terms of clothes, eating and gambling. Young men who had been to Italy on the Grand Tour adopted the Italian word and said that anything that was fashionable or la mode was 'very macaroni'. The expression was particularly used to characterize those people who dressed in high fashion with stripes and tall, powdered wigs with a little hat on top which was so high that it could only be removed on the point of a sword. Macaronies combined the enjoyment of wine, sex and song with effeminacy of dress.
There was a song from the time of the American Revolutionary War, talking of Yankee Doodle who stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni. This shows that "Macaroni" at the time was a slang term for the most up-to-date of fashions.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Macaroni."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fop | Noun: 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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Macaroni |
| English words defined with "macaroni": macaroni and cheese, macaroni salad, Macaronies, Macaronis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "macaroni": bulk-system operator ♦ CONVEYOR OPERATOR, PNEUMATIC SYSTEM ♦ DRIER OPERATOR, DRIER, LONG GOODS, DRIER, SHORT GOODS, durum wheat meal ♦ farina V.S., flour distributor, Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations ♦ long-goods drier, LONG-GOODS HELPER, MACHINE ♦ Mantel-piece ♦ pneumatic-systems operator ♦ SCRAP SEPARATOR, spaghetti press helper, STRIPPER-CUTTER, MACHINE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "macaroni": macaroon. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Macaroni" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (macaroni), French (macaroni, macaronis), German (macaroni), Manx (macaroni), Portuguese (little pipe). |
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Screenplays | It's macaroni and cheese (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright) | |
Lyrics | There was turkey and stuffed corn and macaroni and cheese (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Van meel tot macaroni (1952) Eating Macaroni in the Streets of Naples (1903) Macaroni tout garni (1998) | |
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 | Shown is a single piece of macaroni on a fork. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | (6) color slides show different pasta entrees. (1) fettucini noodles cooked with a butter or cream sauce, (1) spaghetti noodles cooked with tomato sauce, (2) spaghetti noodles cooked with tomato sauce and topped with meatballs, (1) macaroni and cheese, (1) one piece of macaroni and cheese on the prong of a fork. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
 | Tufted macaroni penguin among chinstrap penguins. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | A street macaroni restaurant, Naples, Italy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The enraged macaroni / Phil. Dawe invt. et fecit. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Long Island City, New York. Atlantic Macaroni Company, makers of Caruso brand products. After coming down the chute, finished macaroni is occasionally raked before packing to keep it from pilling up and clogging the flow. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Monsieur le Comte, things will never be better till the emperor delivers us from these macaroni priests |
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Health | Eat soft, soothing foods, such as ice cream, milkshakes, baby food, soft fruits (bananas and applesauce), mashed potatoes, cooked cereals, soft-boiled or scrambled eggs, yogurt, cottage cheese, macaroni and cheese, custards, puddings, and gelatin. (references) | |
Economic History | Philippines | Food processing sub-sectors offering the best sales opportunities for U.S. suppliers include dryers for food and beverages; industrial microwave ovens for cooking and heating food; machines for aerating beverages; bakery machinery and machinery for manufacturing macaroni, spaghetti, etc.; and snack food processing equipment. (references) |
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| "Macaroni" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Macaroni" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 39 | 55,036 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "macaroni": macaroni and cheese ♦ macaroni cheese ♦ macaroni pie ♦ macaroni salad ♦ macaroni wheat. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "macaroni"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | makarona (pasta). (various references) | |
Arabic | معكرونة (pasta, spaghetti), طريق من الصرار. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | макарони (pasta). (various references) | |
Chinese | 通心面 (Macaronis). (various references) | |
Czech | makarony. (various references) | |
Danish | makaroni. (various references) | |
Dutch | macaroni. (various references) | |
Esperanto | makaronio. (various references) | |
Faeroese | makaroni. (various references) | |
Farsi | ماکارونی (Noodle), ژیگولو (Cockscomb), جوان خارج رفته , رشته فرنگی (Noodle, Spaghetti, Vermicelli). (various references) | |
Finnish | makaroni. (various references) | |
French | macaroni (macaronis). (various references) | |
German | Makkaroni, Makaroni. (various references) | |
Greek | μακαρόνια (spaghetti). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקרו י, אטרי" (noodle, vermicelli). (various references) | |
Hungarian | makaróni (worms). (various references) | |
Italian | maccheroni. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | マオリ族 (Macadam, macaroni western, Macbeth, Machiavellism, macrame, macro, macrocosm, macroengineering, macrolens, macron, magazine, magazine rack, Maori, Maxell, maxi, maxim, maximum, McDonalds). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マカロニ . (various references) | |
Korean | 마카로니 (Macaronis). (various references) | |
Manx | macaroni. (various references) | |
Maori | makaroni. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acaronimay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | macarrão (pasta, spaghetti). (various references) | |
Romanian | macaroane, spaghete (spaghetti), filfizon (coxcomb, Dandy, dandyish, dude, fop, jackanapes, Johnny, La-di-da, Peacock). (various references) | |
Russian | макароны (noodle, pasta, pastas). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | makaroni. (various references) | |
Spanish | macarrones (macaronies). (various references) | |
Swedish | makaroner. (various references) | |
Thai | มะกะโรนี. (various references) | |
Turkish | makarna (pasta), züppe (adonis, beau, buck, conceited pup, coxcomb, dandified, Dandy, dude, fop, high hat, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, La-di-da, la-di-dah, nob, Peacock, petit-maitre, popinjay, pup, puppy, snob, spark, swell, toff), karmakarışık şey (farrago, gallimaufry, hotchpotch, jumble). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | кінострічка, макарони. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mỳ ống. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "macaroni": macaronic, macaronics, macaronies, macaronis. (additional references) | |
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"Macaroni" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Accaron, amacrine, Macaron, macaronic, maccaroni, maclareni, Macronix, makakopi, makarii, makaroni, Maqarin, marcaroni, mascarons, mechatronic, mesarovic, mucranoid, nacarena. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "macaroni" (pronounced ma'kerō"nē) |
| 4 | -er ō" n ē | pepperoni. |
| 3 | -ō" n ē | abalone, baloney, Bologna, boney, bony, Coney, crony, mony, negroni, phoney, phony, pony, rigatoni, Stoney, stony, Toney, Tony. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: armonica, marocain. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-m-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: acromia, manioca, minorca, ocarina. | |
-2 letters: acinar, airman, anomic, arnica, caiman, camion, carina, carman, crania, macron, maniac, manioc, marina, micron. | |
-3 letters: acari, acorn, amain, amino, amnia, amnic, amnio, anima, aroma, cairn, carom, coria, inarm, macon, macro, mania, manic, manor, maria, micra, micro, minor, moira, naira, narco, naric, noria, orcin, racon, roman. | |
-4 letters: airn, amia, amin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-m-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: armonicas, carbamino, carcinoma, harmonica, macaronic, macaronis, marocains, panoramic. | |
+2 letters: anamorphic, carcinomas, chairwoman, cochairman, harmonicas, macaronics, macaronies, maceration, machinator, maraschino, microfauna, monarchial, morganatic, oceanarium, pyromaniac. | |
+3 letters: aerodynamic, aeronomical, anachronism, calumniator, carcinomata, demarcation, emancipator, lacrimation, macerations, machinators, maraschinos, microfaunae, microfaunal, microfaunas, micromanage, monarchical, nonaromatic, nondramatic, oceanariums, pyromaniacs, reclamation. | |
+4 letters: aerodynamics, aeromagnetic, anachronisms, antiromantic, astronomical, calumniators, camphorating, cochairwoman, contaminator, demarcations, emancipators, harmonically, incomparable, incomparably, intracompany, lacrimations, microanalyst, microanatomy, microbalance, micromanaged, micromanager, micromanages, monodramatic, panchromatic, paronomastic, proclamation, pyromaniacal, racemization, ramification, reclamations, romantically. | |
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