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"Bibliological Maledictions Revisited" in Maledicta (1978), featuring a dozen multilingual book curses that would have rounded out this introduction with such unusual macaronic curses as ... in ventrem illius I'll stick my scalpellum/And teach him to steal my little libellum, or William Barnes's four-line curse in Italian, Latin, French, and English.
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- adjective Of or containing a mixture of vernacular words with Latin words or with vernacular words given Latinate endings: macaronic verse.
- adjective Of or involving a mixture of two or more languages.
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- ; Derivative, macaronic, i.e. in a confused or mixed state — Life of Johnson
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"Bibliological Maledictions Revisited" in Maledicta (1978), featuring a dozen multilingual book curses that would have rounded out this introduction with such unusual macaronic curses as ... in ventrem illius I'll stick my scalpellum/And teach him to steal my little libellum, or William Barnes's four-line curse in Italian, Latin, French, and English.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3 -
Broadly and loosely this macaronic (or is it mock ironic?) hybrid means ` a place that is in a ghastly mess, or Shitland. '
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 2 -
Certain lines of this invective are written in a cipher or code, and when deciphered one word among these is fuccant, which in context is indubitably our word, though it has been given a mock-Latin form (with participial - ant) in keeping with the macaronic language of the lines in which it occurs. 1 I was able to inspect the manuscript (Harley 3362), and here acknowledge the kindness of the staff of the Students Room of the British Library in providing access as well as the marvelous services and facilities for study which make it such a pleasure to work there.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1 -
Which is followed by a patch of macaronic prose-poetry to which I refer the titillated reader (Part One, Chapter 27,
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
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- New Latin macaronicus, from Italian maccheronea, macaronic verse, after Maccharonea, title of a work containing such verse by Tifi Odasi, 15th-century Italian author, from maccherone, maccaroni, course food.
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/ (măkˌə-rŏnˈĭk)/
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