EGAVE

macaroni

About 0.49 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A type of pasta in the form of short tubes, typically boiled and served in soup, with a sauce, or in melted cheese; a dish of this. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. noun Pasta, particularly thicker noodles, spaghetti.
  3. noun Synonym of gnocchi (“Italian dumpling made of potato or semolina”).
  4. noun A dandy or fop, particularly in the 18th century a young Englishman who had travelled in Europe and subsequently dressed and spoke in an ostentatiously affected Continental manner.
  5. noun A 19th-century quarter-silver dollar coin, typically a full 2-real coin or a quarter clipping of an 8-real coin from Central or South America.
  6. noun Ellipsis of macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus).
  7. noun Synonym of Italian (“a person from Italy or of Italian ethnicity”).
  8. noun Ellipsis of macaroni tool.

Similar words

pasta pulp elbow macaroni maccheroni ziti macaroni cheese chinese macaroni cavatappi macaroni salad spaghetti

Often followed by

and salad with in products or is cheese to

Word family

macaronies macaronis

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