macaroni

  1. Noun.  (uncountable) A type of pasta in the form of short tubes.
  2. Noun.  (uncountable) (''used by Italian-Americans'') A generic term for pasta.
  3. Noun.  (pejorative) In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a man who dressed and often spoke in an ostentatiously affected and effeminate manner, or sometimes, a woman who dressed and often spoke in an ostentatiously affected manner.
  4. Noun.  A sort of droll or fool; a fop; – applied especially to English fops of about 1775.

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