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Macaronic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pertaining to or like a macaroni; empty; trifling; vain; affected.

2. Consisting of a mixture or jumble of ill formed or ill connected words.

Macaronic [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A kind of burlesque poetry, in which native words are made to end in Latin terminations, or Latin words are modernized.

Macaronic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Macaronic [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.