Synonymer

Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /ma.kəˈɹəʊ.ni/
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˌmækəˈɹoʊni/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.makarna

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (uncountable) A type of pasta in the form of short tubes; sometimes loosely, pasta in general.
  2. (pejorative, now historical) A fop, a dandy; especially a young man in the 18th century who had travelled in Europe and who dressed and often spoke in an ostentatiously affected Continental manner.

Exempel

  • Delicate lace ruffles fell over the lean yellow hands that were so overladen with rings. He had been a macaroni of the eighteenth century, and the friend, in his youth, of Lord Ferrars.
  • A small, noisy party of Fops, Macaronis, or Lunarians,—it is difficult quite to distinguish which,—has been working its way up the street.

Böjningsformer

Pluralmacaronies
Pluralmacaronis