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.

(loosely) Pasta, {{n-g|particularly}} thicker noodles, spaghetti. +

(obsolete) (gloss=Italian dumpling made of potato or semolina).

(pejorative) A dandy or fop, {{n-g|particularly}} in the 18th century a young Englishman who had travelled in Europe and subsequently dressed and spoke in an ostentatiously affected Continental manner. +

(numismatics) A 19th-century quarter-silver dollar coin, {{n-g|typically}} a full 2-real coin or a quarter clipping of an 8-real coin from Central or South America.

(zoology) (nodot=1) (''Eudyptes chrysolophus'').

(ethnic slur) (gloss=a person from Italy or of Italian ethnicity).

(obsolete) (nodot=1).

(obsolete) (nodot=1).

(obsolete) A mix of languages in macaronic verse.

(slang) Nonsense; meaningless talk. +

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

(obsolete) A macaroon.