Macaroni
WordNet
noun
(1) Pasta in the form of slender tubes
(2) A British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms
"Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni"
WiktionaryText
English
Noun
- A type of pasta in the form of short tubes.
- (used by Italian-Americans, especially in Philadelphia and New Jersey) A generic term for pasta.
Etymology 2
Adopted by those who had visited Italy on the Grand Tour to mean anything fashionable
Noun
- In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a man who dressed and often spoke in an ostentatiously affected and effeminate manner.
- A sort of droll or fool; a fop; – applied especially to English fops of about 1775.