maccheroni
maccheroni noun: macaroni.
Noun
maccheroni sg or pl
- Macaroni.
- Large kettles stand full of dressed maccheroni, with cheese scattered over it, and decorated with small pieces of love apple.1819 August, Galignani’s Traveller’s Guide through Italy; or, a Comprehensive View of the Antiquities and Curiosities of That Classical and Interesting Country: […], Paris: […] Galignani; […], page...
- Part of the supper, consisting of boiled and fried fish; French beans, and different kinds of fried vegetables, was quickly served; fried light pastes and a dish of maccheroni with cheese, were afterwards brought in.1826, [Alexander Brodie], The Prophetess: A Tale of the Last Century, in Italy, volume II, Edinburgh: […] Thomas Clark, […]; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, page 300
Examples of maccheroni in a sentence
- The whole of the next morning was taken up in kneading the paste for making the maccheroni; […]1856, Madame Émile de Girardin [i.e., Delphine de Girardin], translated by Alfred Elwes, “How to learn to make Maccheroni”, in Stories of...
- In the kind of eating-house that suited his mood, an obscure bettola probably never yet patronized by Englishman, he sat down to a dish of maccheroni and a bottle of red wine.1890, George Gissing, The Emancipated: A Novel, volume I, London: Richard Bentley and Son, page 153:
- When the maccheroni are dried (twelve hours of exposure are usually sufficient) they are ready to be packed and shipped.1912, T.P.’s Magazine, volume 4:
- The maccheroni are of course excellent, but most foreigners cannot live on maccheroni alone.1926, Edward Hutton, Cities of Sicily, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 112:
Origin of maccheroni
Borrowed from Italian maccheroni.
Questions about maccheroni
- What does maccheroni mean?
- Maccheroni means macaroni.
- How do you use maccheroni in a sentence?
- The whole of the next morning was taken up in kneading the paste for making the maccheroni; […]
- What part of speech is maccheroni?
- Maccheroni is a noun.
Words near maccheroni in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: maccheroni (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “maccheroni.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/maccheroni. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.