- Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of
mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled. - Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called
macaronic; as, macaronic poetry. - A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble. - 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.