Macaronic

Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.
  • (n.) A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble.
  • (n.) A kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots.

Compare macaronic with other words:

language vs. macaronic

macaronic vs. mixture

hodgepodge vs. macaronic

macaronic vs. mixed

jumbled vs. macaronic

macaroni vs. macaronic