† macaronianadj.
Obsolete.
1. = macaronic adj. 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > types of poem according to form > [adjective] > macaronic
macaronical1585
macaronic1711
macaronian1728
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Macaronic, or Macaronian, a kind of burlesque poetry... We have little in English in the Macaronian way.
1751 R. O. Cambridge Scribleriad ii. 17 (note) The Macaronian is a kind of burlesque poetry, consisting of a jumble of words of different languages, with words of the vulgar tongue latinized, and latin words modernized.
2. = macaronic adj. 3. rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [adjective] > dandyish
quaintc1330
skipjack1598
satin1603
coxcombly1610
prigginga1627
coxcombical1649
skipjackly1674
jessamy1696
beauish1699
foppish1699
priggish1701
Jemmy Jessamine1786
macaronian1792
buckish1806
dandy1813
dandified1826
dandyish1826
Brummellian1829
dandyic1832
dandiacal1834
squirtish1843
macaronyish1858
fine-gentlemanish1865
foppy1878
dude1879
dudish1883
fancy1891
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial > affected or foppish
skipjack1598
skipjackly1674
fal-lal1747
macaronian1792
1792 G. Galloway Poems 16 Give ear ilk Macaronian beau, 'Tween George's square and eke Soho.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adj.1728