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MACARONI
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Irregular inflected form: macaronies
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pasta in the form of slender tubes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("macaroni" is a kind of...):
alimentary paste; pasta (shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms
Example:
Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("macaroni" is a kind of...):
beau; clotheshorse; dandy; dude; fashion plate; fop; gallant; sheik; swell (a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance)
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