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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
Macaronian \Mac`a*ro"ni*an\, Macaronic \Mac`a*ron"ic\, a. [Cf. It. maccheronico, F. macaronique.] Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled. Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; ...
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 ...
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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular words jumbled together; "macaronic verse"
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.