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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



... ado to lift it down. As she did so, splash! half the water was spilled: then her tormentor went through a dumb show of sympathy and sorrow until the crone seemed like to burst with fury. At last he broke into a fit of shrill laughter, the first sound he had uttered, made a macaronic gesture, and capered off with the airiest gambols and antics, like a very devil's kid. A street-urchin teasing an old woman is no new sight, but the nimbleness, spirit, grace and gentleness of this ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various


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