单词 | macaronic |
释义 | macaronicadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of the nature of or designating a jumble or medley. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [adjective] > miscellaneous or heterogeneous > incongruously mixed medleya1400 intermellé1487 farraginary1538 hotchpotch1556 promiscuous1579 hotchpot1588 pied1594 motley1601 hodge-podge1602 promiscual1602 macaronic1611 farraginous1616 throughother1626 mishmash1652 promiscous1656 hotchpotchly1674 hodge-podging1772 hashy1781 mixty-maxty1786 motleyed1798 gallimaufrical1836 odd-and-end1836 chow-chow1844 speckled1845 ragbag1882 disherent1890 1611 T. Coryate (title) Coryats Crambe, or his Colwort Twise Sodden, And Now serued in with other Macaronicke dishes, as the second course to his Crudities. 1707 E. Ward London Terræ-filius No. 4. 15 Who could agree better..than such a Monster of a Sphinx... 'Tis your affright'ning Picture, Macaronique Madam. 1806 J. Dallaway Observ. Eng. Archit. 222 Those Travellers who have seen the new buildings of Edinburgh and Glasgow will look on the architecture of Bath, as belonging to the maccaronick order. 1816 G. Colman Eccentricities Edinb. 7 My coarse, macaronick style May, here and there, excite a smile. 1977 A. Sheridan tr. J. Lacan Écrits iii. 68 With the macaronic inversion of kinship names, he presents us with an anticipation of the discoveries of the anthropologists. 1991 J. Diski Happily ever After xiv. 163 What she experienced as her mind was the hideously macaronic jumble of the room in which she sat. 2. Of or designating a burlesque form of verse in which vernacular words are introduced into the context of another language (originally and chiefly Latin), often with corresponding inflections and constructions; gen. of or designating any form of verse in which two or more languages are mingled together. Hence of language, style, etc.: resembling the mixed jargon of macaronic poetry. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > types of poem according to form > [adjective] > macaronic macaronical1585 macaronic1711 macaronian1728 1638 Sir J. Beaumont in Jonsonus Virbius 12 He Latin Horace found..Translated in the Macaronicke toung. 1651 T. T. de Mayerne Let. 17 Oct. in A. Conway Lett. (1930) 23 The lampoons of Merlin Cocaji, and the macaronic verses of Bellay. 1711 Drumm. of Hawth.'s Wks., Life 5 For diverting himself and his Friends, he wrote a Sheet which he called Polemo-Middinia; 'Tis a sort of Macaronick Poetry, in which the Scots Words are put in Latin Terminations. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 222 [Johnson:] Maccaronick verses are verses made out of a mixture of different languages. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. vi. 519 Maillard..whose sermons, printed if not preached in Latin, with sometimes a sort of almost macaronic intermixture of French. 1897 E. Dowden Hist. Fr. Lit. ii. i. 90 The macaronic poet Folengo. 1979 C. James Pillars of Hercules i. iv. 75 His macaronic threnodies, crowded with the names of things remembered. 1986 Early Music 14 369/1 A song, the words of which are in a macaronic mixture of Latin, Swedish and German. 3. Relating to a macaroni (sense 2); foppish, conceited. rare. Now historical. ΚΠ 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Macaronic, pertaining to or like a macaroni; empty; trifling; vain; affected. 1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon lvii. 567 Yet as no true Macaroni would, in non-Macaronick Company, behave too Macaronickally, in that was the impersonation you saw, defective. B. n. 1. A jumble or medley. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > variety > [noun] > incongruous mixture hotchpotc1405 hodge-podgec1426 omnigatherum?a1430 mishmashc1475 peasemeala1525 omnium gatherum1530 mingle1548 hotchpotch1549 mingle-mangle1549 gallimaufry1551 rhapsody1574 sauce-medley1579 pell-mellc1586 linsey-woolsey1592 wilderness1594 brewage1599 motley1609 macaronic1611 medley1618 olla podridaa1635 farragoa1637 consarcination1640 porridge1642 olio1645 bisque1653 mélange1653 hash1660 jumble1661 farrage1698 capilotade1705 jargon1710 salmagundi1761 pasticcio1785 pea meal1789 ollapod1804 mixty-maxty1818 macédoine1820 ragbag1820 haggis1822 job lot1828 allsorts1831 conglomerate1837 pot-pourri1841 chow-chow1850 breccia1873 pastiche1873 macaroni1884 mixed bag1919 casserole1930 mixed bunch1958 rattle-bag1982 mulligan1993 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Macaronique, a Macaronick; a confused heape, or huddle of many seuerall things. 1901 F. W. Rolfe Chron. House of Borgia ii. 268 But Messer Rafaele Sanzio, despite all his conventional macaronics, was for once in his life artist enough to omit both book and blake. 2. A macaronic composition, a macaronic verse (frequently in plural); macaronic language (rare). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > types of poem according to form > [noun] > macaronics macaronic1651 macaronicism1830 1651 T. Vaughan Second Wash 3 He hath indeed a certain Patavinitie, some rude Allusions like Macaronics to Latine. 1693 Apol. Clergy Scotl. 31 When some of his Party mounts the Desk and declaims their Maccaronicks. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Macaronicks [among the Italians], a sort of Burlesque Poetry made out of their Language, and the Scraps and Terminations of divers other. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. v. 267 Folengo..sat down for the rest of his life to write Macaronics. 1852 Examiner 28 Feb. 133/2 All poems in twelve books are not epics, all funny jumbles of language are not Macaronics. a1864 L. Aikin in Mem. 77 Our own people were turning Scotch without knowing it. We began to allow the macaronic of the Edinburgh Review for actual English! 1866 J. R. Lowell Let. 10 Jan. (1894) I. 355 I will send you the macaronics in a day or two, and you may put them in the fire if you like. 1920 F. D. Smith in Q. Jrnl. (Univ. N. Dakota) (title) Mr. Wilbur's Postumous [sic] Macaronics. 1949 Times 31 Dec. Should one, as the Oxford Carol Book does, adapt the rhymes of the macaronics to the Italianate Latin? 1963 Times 9 Mar. 10/7 The visitors were interested. ‘I think it's a macaronic, Alastair,’ one of them said. 1996 Éire—Ireland Spring 66 And I think there's macaronics in that poem because of Sister Custos. 1998 G. Szirtes Portrait of my Father in Eng. Landscape II. 45 This tiny world, part Hungary, part England, Is the macaronic my parents speak—My dad especially. There is no bland Unbroken stream. The words seem to leak In drips. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1611 |
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