macaroni

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The water must be boiling rapidly when the macaroni is added and must be kept boiling constantly.

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  1. noun Pasta in any of various hollow shapes, especially short curved tubes.
  2. noun A well-traveled young Englishman of the 18th and 19th centuries who affected foreign customs and manners.
  3. noun A fop.

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  • The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that Israel has arbitrarily refused entry of even basic items like chickpeas, macaroni, and wheat-flour, notebooks for students, freezer appliances, generators, water pumps and cooking gas. —  GlobalResearch.ca
  • Use paintbrushes, crayons, clay, and Play-Doh, Use glue to create collages with items from nature and household items (elbow macaroni is a favorite with kids at our centers). —  post-gazette.com - News
  • Unlike previous reviews our macaroni was cooked all the way through so there were no problems with that.
  • The next day the cobbler proposed to the giant to cook a great kettle of macaroni, and after they had eaten it, he would cut open his stomach to show the giant that he had eaten it without chewing it; the giant was to do the same afterward. —  Italian Popular Tales
  • While he was gone the gosling prepared the macaroni, and put it on the fire to cook in a kettle full of water. —  Italian Popular Tales
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  1. Italian dialectal maccaroni, pl. of maccarone, dumpling, macaroni.

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  1. Formerly also maccaroni, mackeroni, macheroni; = French macaroni = Spanish macarrones = Portuguese macarrão, from Old Italian maccaroni, Italian maccheroni, macaroni, orig. a mixture of flour, cheese, and butter, prob. from maccare, bruise, batter, from Latin macerare, macerate: see macerate. Cf. macaroon, from the same source. In ref. to the secondary uses of the word (cf. Italian maccarone, now maccherone, a fool, blockhead), it is to be noted that it is common to name a droll fellow, regarded as typical of his country, after some favorite article of food, as English Jack-pudding, German Hanswurst (‘Jack Sausage’), French Jean Farine (‘Jack Flour’).
 

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/mækəˈroʊni/
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