macaroni🔊

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.

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

(obsolete) Italian dumpling made of potato or semolina. +

(chiefly historical and derogatory) A dandy or fop, particularly in the 18th century a young Englishman who had traveled in Europe and subsequently dressed and spoke in an ostentatiously affected Continental manner. +

(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.

(zoology) Macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus).

(ethnic slur) A person from Italy or of Italian ethnicity. +

(obsolete) Macaroni tool.

(Scotland, zoology, obsolete) Lizard canary.

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

(Australia, slang) Nonsense; meaningless talk.

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

(obsolete) A macaroon.