macaronic
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˌmækəˈɹɑnɪk/
macaronic
- (archaic) jumbled, mixed
- (literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
- (dated) Like a macaroni or dandy; foppish, trifling, affected.
- French: bâtard
- Italian: imbastardito
- Spanish: bastardo, espurio
- French: macaronique
- Italian: maccheronico
- Portuguese: macarrónico (Portugal), macarrônico (Brazil)
- Russian: макарони́ческий
- Spanish: macarrónico
macaronic (plural macaronics)
- (literature) A work of macaronic character.
- (linguistic morphology) A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages, one of which is Latin, or a non-Latin stem with a Latin ending.
- French: galimatias, charabia, amphigouri
- Italian: maccheronata
- Spanish: galimatías, algarabía, guirigay
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