| Macaronic | { } a. [ Cf. It. maccheronico, F. macaronique. ] 1. Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Macaronian |
| Macaronic | n. 1. A heap of things confusedly mixed together; a jumble. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] |