喜樂美語
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    A kind of pasta in short hollow tubes. The tubes may be a little curved (elbow macaroni) or straight. You boil them in water, then mix them with sauce. In many British and American homes the famous dish is macaroni and cheese — often a children’s food, sometimes from a box. Though actually, Italian maccheroni can cover more tube shapes than the bright-yellow school lunch English speakers picture; in everyday English, though, macaroni almost always means those small tubes, not spaghetti. It is a plain food word, not fancy. You may also meet it in the old song Yankee Doodle, where it does not mean pasta at all — it once meant a very fashionable man — but the cooking sense is the one on packets and menus.

組成From Italian maccaroni, old plural of maccarone (now usually maccheroni). The deeper origin is not settled: some derive it from late Byzantine Greek makaría, a barley food, from Ancient Greek mákar “blessed”; others from Italian maccare “to crush,” from Latin maccāre. We should not pretend one story has won. The old “fashionable man” sense in English probably comes from a London Macaroni Club, not from Italian words for a fool.

同家族的字

  • macaroonboth go back to Italian maccarone / maccheroni
  • macaronFrench cousin from the same Italian word family

原始詞典資料13 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

macaroninoun詞源 1/mæk.əˈɹəʊ.ni/

  • 1

    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.

    • Take half a pound of small pipe-macaroni.
    • "I can recommend this macaroni, for it is my favourite dish: I am very national. You will not take any? Ah, young ladies are, or ought to be, light eaters. Your ladyship will, I trust, set your fair companion an example."
  • 2

    obsoleteinformalPasta, particularly thicker noodles, spaghetti.

    • Paste made into strings like pack-thread or thongs of whit-leather (which if greater they call Macaroni, if lesser Vermicelli) they cut in pieces and put in their pots as we do oat-meal to make their menestra or broth of.
    • MACARONI... is a preparation of wheat originally peculiar to Italy, in which country it is an article of food of national importance. The same substance in different forms is also known as vermicelli, pasta or Italian pastes, taglioni, fanti, &c.
  • 3

    obsoleteSynonym of gnocchi (“Italian dumpling made of potato or semolina”).

    • Maccaróni, a kind of meat made of round peeces of paste, boyled in water and put into a dish with butter, spice and grated-cheese vpon them.
    • He doth learne to make ſtrange ſauces, to eat ænchouies, maccaroni, bouoli, fagioli, and cauiare, becauſe hee loues ’hem; […]
  • 4

    derogatoryhistoricalA dandy or fop, particularly in the 18th century a young Englishman who had travelled in Europe and subsequently dressed and spoke in an ostentatiously affected Continental manner.

    • ... the Maccaroni Club (which is composed of all the travelled young men who wear long curls and spying-glasses) ...
    • Lady Falkener's daughter is to be married to a young rich Mr. Crewe, a Macarone...
  • 5

    historicalhobbieslifestylenumismaticsA 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.

    • The silver coins are dollars (6s. 8d.), half dollars, and quarter dollars, or maccaronies as they are here popularly called.
  • 6

    slurSynonym of Italian (“a person from Italy or of Italian ethnicity”).

    • Surely I shall always be able, go where I will, among frogs or maccaronis, to procure sucre noir, or inchiostro nero.
  • 7

    obsoletebiologynatural-scienceszoologySynonym of lizard canary.

    • Lizards are known among Scotchmen as ‘macaronies’.
  • 8

    obsoleteliteraturemediapublishingA mix of languages in macaronic verse.

    • ... political songs in Latin or in a maccaroni of Latin and English ...
另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    slangNonsense; meaningless talk.

    • Yes. Jam, macaroni, cockadoodle. We're plain people out hereaways, not mantle ornaments.

macaroniadj詞源 1/mæk.əˈɹəʊ.ni/

  • 1

    historicalChic, fashionable, stylish; in the manner of a macaroni.

macaroninoun詞源 2/mak.əˈɹəʊ.ni/

  • 1

    obsoleteA macaroon.

    • Macaroni. It comes from Italy. It is a biscuit made of almonds, eggs, flower, and sugar.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • macaroni penguin
  • macaroni tool

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