What does "macaronic" mean?
Macaronic: Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.
Additional senses
- 2.A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble.
- 3.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.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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