Macaroni : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Macaroni	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Macaroni
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
macaroni n a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms; "Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" pasta in the form of slender tubes
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Macaroni \Mac`a*ro"ni\, n.; pl. {Macaronis}, or {Macaronies}. [Prov. It. macaroni, It. maccheroni, fr. Gr. [?] happiness, later, a funeral feast, fr. [?] blessed, happy. Prob. so called because eaten at such feasts in honor of the dead; cf. Gr. [?] blessed, i. e., dead. Cf. {Macaroon}.] 1. Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.