macaronic

• macaronick (obsolete)

From New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“coarse dumpling”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmækəˈɹɑnɪk/

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macaronic (comparative more macaronic, superlative most macaronic)

1. (archaic) jumbled, mixed
2. (literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
3. (dated) Like a macaroni or dandy; foppish, trifling, affected.

macaronic (plural macaronics)

1. (literature) A work of macaronic character.
2. (linguistic morphology) A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages, one of which is Latin, or a non-Latin stem with a Latin ending.

• carcinoma, maccaroni