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Macaronic   Listen
adjective
Macaronic, Macaronian  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.
2.
Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.





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"Macaronic" Quotes from Famous Books



... blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism|!, Hibernicism|!; slipslop[obs3]; anticlimax, bathos; sophism &c. 477. farce, galimathias[obs3], amphigouri[obs3], rhapsody; farrago &c (disorder) 59; betise[Fr]; extravagance, romance; sciamachy[obs3]. sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic[obs3]. jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish &c (no meaning) 517; exaggeration &c 549; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion. vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade[Fr], escapade. V. play the fool &c. 499; talk nonsense, parler a tort et a ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


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