macaroni adj.
1. Italian.
[ | Have With You to Saffron-Walden in Works III (1883–4) 47: One Dick Litchfield [...] a rare/ingenoues odde merry Greeke who (as I haue heard) hath translated my Piers Pennilesse into the Macaronicall tongue. | |
Satirist (London) 5 Feb. 43/3: What tom-foolery it is [...] that these maccaroni Dukes should take precedence of the good old respectable and substantial beef and plum-pudding eating families of England. | ||
Clockmaker (1843) II 149: Those Macaroni rascals, seein’ me a stranger, thought to do me nicely. |
2. (UK black) good, admirable.
🎵 Stepped in with that trench coat, it's so lovely / That's that macaroni. | ‘Macaroni’