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maccare
Italian · medieval
"to bruise, crush"
a verb of uncertain deeper origin meaning to crush or batter
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maccarone
Southern Italian · medieval
"a pasty flour-and-cheese dish"
named a pasty food made of flour, cheese, and butter
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macaroni
English · 1590s
"a tube-shaped pasta"
borrowed for the pasta dish, later shortened for it as well
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macaroni
English · 1769
"a foppish, fashion-obsessed dandy"
extended to a fop obsessed with fashionable Continental style, via London's Macaroni Club
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