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macaroons

macaroons is the plural of macaroon.

Meaning of macaroon

Noun (1)

macaroon (plural macaroons)

  1. A soft biscuit or cookie prepared with almond or coconut dough.
    • I will take charge of the cake department, including, if I remember rightly, plum and plain, rout cakes, and macaroons, finger biscuits, and cracknels.1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 208

Noun (2)

macaroon (plural macaroons)

  1. (archaic) A coarse, rude, low fellow.
    • Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat,
      Ready to travail; so I sigh and sweat,
      To hear this macaroon talk on in vain.1590s, John Donne, Satire IV, "Well; I may now receive, and die"

Phrases with macaroons

Questions about macaroons

What is macaroons the plural of?
Macaroons is the plural of macaroon.

Words near macaroons in the dictionary

  1. macaronisms
  2. macaronistic
  3. macarons
  4. macaroon
  5. macaroonlike
  6. macaroons
  7. macarpine
  8. Macarthur
  9. MacArthur Park
  10. MacArthurs
  11. Macartney

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Adapted from Wiktionary: macaroons (page history and authors); macaroon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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