Definitions for: Macaroni

[n] pasta in the form of slender tubes

Webster (1913) Definition: Mac`a*ro"ni, n.; pl. Macaronis, or Macaronies.
[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.]
1. Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour,
and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.

Note: 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).

2. A medley; something droll or extravagant.

3. A sort of droll or fool. [Obs.] --Addison.

4. A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English
fops of about 1775. --Goldsmith.

5. pl. (U. S. Hist.) The designation of a body of Maryland
soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich
uniform. --W. Irving.

See Also: alimentary paste, pasta

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