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Hodgepodge, as the etymology of a word
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macaronic
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Word definitions for macaronic in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Macaronic \Mac`a*ron"ic\, n. A heap of things confusedly mixed together; a jumble. 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context archaic English) jumbled, mixed 2 (context literature English) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages. n. 1 (context literature English) A work of macaronic character. 2 (context morphology English) A word consist of a mix ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular words jumbled together; "macaronic verse"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, in reference to a form of verse consisting of vernacular words in a Latin context with Latin endings; applied loosely to verse in which two or more languages are jumbled together; from Modern Latin macaronicus (coined 1517 by Teofilo Folengo), from ...
Usage examples of macaronic.
He told me that I had arrived just in time to go to a picnic got up by the Macaronic academicians for the next day, after a sitting of the academy in which every member was to recite something of his composition.