MACARONI

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.

2.
n.

A medley; something droll or extravagant.

3.
n.

A sort of droll or fool. [Obs.] Addison.

4.
n.

A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775. Goldsmith.