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  • adverb In a macaronic way.

Etymologies

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macaronic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • The current Manhattan Yellow Pages (1986) offers little evidence that this naming trend affects the Big Apple; I cannot even find a listing for the macaronically named Chinese fast foodery some friends of mine operated a few years back, Gung Ho.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4 1986

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