Macaronic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  macaronic
       adj : of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular
             words jumbled together; "macaronic verse"