macaronic
Plural: macaronics
Adjective
- of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular words jumbled together
- "macaronic verse"
Adj
- Jumbled, mixed.
- Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
- Like a macaroni or dandy; foppish, trifling, affected.
Noun
- A work of macaronic character.
- A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages.
- A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages.
- Such a word that mixes Latin morphemes with non-Latin ones.
Origin / Etymology
From New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“coarse dumpling”).
Synonyms
Jemmy-Jessamy, Woosterian, beauish, buckish, coxcombical, dandiacal, dandified, dandy, dandyish, dandyistic, dudish, etymological hybrid, foppish, foppy, hybrid, lily-handed, macaronic, swellish
Scrabble Score: 15
macaronic: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmacaronic: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
macaronic: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary