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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Macaronic \Mac`a*ron"ic\, n.
1. A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble.
2. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Macaronian \Mac`a*ro"ni*an\, Macaronic \Mac`a*ron"ic\, a. [Cf.
It maccheronico F. macaronique.]
1. Pertaining to or like macaroni (originally a dish of
mixed food); hence mixed; confused; jumbled.
2. Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called
macaronic; as macaronic poetry.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
macaronic
adj : of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular
words jumbled together; "macaronic verse"
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