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macaronic
Part of speech: AdjectivePert. to or resembling macaroni; empty; trifling; a kind of burlesque poetry.
Usage examples "macaronic":- It was this latter propensity which had generated the anomalous macaronic dialect, of which we have already spoken as a characteristic circumstance in the social features of literary Germany during the first half of the eighteenth century. - "Biographical Essays", Thomas de Quincey.
- Yet a fourth collection of miscellanies differs not much in constitution from the others, and Drummond's poetical work is completed by some local pieces, such as Forth Feasting, some hymns and divine poems, and an attempt in Macaronic called Polemo- Middinia, which is perhaps not his. - "A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature", George Saintsbury.
- Presentation Day Songs, June 14, 1854. Some amusing anecdotes are told, such as the well- known one about the lofty dignitary's macaronic injunction, " Exclude canem, et shut the door"; and another of a tutor's dismal flunk on faba. - "A Collection of College Words and Customs", Benjamin Homer Hall.