[mac.a.ro.ni] n [It maccheroni, pl. of maccherone, fr. It dial. maccarone dumpling, macaroni] (1599) 1: pasta made from semolina and shaped in the form of slender tubes
2. pl macaronis or macaronies a: a member of a class of traveled young Englishmen of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who affected foreign ways b: an affected young man: fop