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macaronic |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Macaronic \Mac`a*ron"ic\, n. 1. A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble. 2. A kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Macaronian \Mac`a*ro"ni*an\, Macaronic \Mac`a*ron"ic\, a. [Cf. It maccheronico F. macaronique.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: macaronic adj : of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular words jumbled together; "macaronic verse"
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