macaronic

Meanings

Plural: macaronics

Adjective

• of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular words jumbled together
  • "macaronic verse"

Adj

• Jumbled, mixed.
• Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
• Like a macaroni or dandy; foppish, trifling, affected.

Noun

• A work of macaronic character.
• A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages.
• A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages.
• Such a word that mixes Latin morphemes with non-Latin ones.

Synonyms

beauish, buckish, coxcombical, dandiacal, dandified, dandy, dandyish, dandyistic, dudish, etymological hybrid, foppish, foppy, hybrid, Jemmy-Jessamy, lily-handed, macaronic, swellish, Woosterian

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