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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Macaronian \Mac`a*ro"ni*an\, Macaronic \Mac`a*ron"ic\, a. [Cf.
It. maccheronico, F. macaronique.]
1. Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of
mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.
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2. Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called
macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Macaronic \Mac`a*ron"ic\, n.
1. A heap of things confusedly mixed together; a jumble.
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2. A kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular
words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with
genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding
Latin terminations to other roots.
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