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macaronic definition

maca·ronic (-rän′ik)

adjective

involving or characterized by a mixture of languages; esp., designating or of burlesque verse in which real or coined words from two or more languages are mixed, or words of a modern language are given Latin case endings and mixed with Latin words

Etymology: Fr macaronique < It maccaronico < maccaroni, lit., macaroni: see macaroni

noun

macaronic verse: usually used in pl.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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