How do you use the word "macaroni" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "macaroni": Cover the macaroni fully with water. The smell of macaroni and cheese makes me nauseous.

Macaroni Meaning

/mæk.əˈɹəʊ.ni/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA type of pasta in the form of short tubes, typically boiled and served in soup, with a sauce, or in melted cheese; a dish of this.

nounPasta, particularly thicker noodles, spaghetti.

Sentence Examples

Cover the macaroni fully with water.

The smell of macaroni and cheese makes me nauseous.

CEFR Practice Quiz

For a quick weeknight dinner, she boiled a pot of ____ and served it with cheese.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We had a delicious and very comforting meal of ____ and cheese for dinner on a cold winter night.

Word Origin & History

From Italian maccaroni (plural of maccarone (archaic variant of maccheroni (“fool”))), of uncertain origin. Variously derived from late Byzantine Greek μακαρία (makaría, “food made from barley”), from Ancient Greek μάκαρ (mákar, “blessed; favored by the gods”), or from maccare (archaic variant of ammaccare (“to bruise; to crush”)), from Latin maccāre of the same meaning. Compare Sicilian maccarruni (“a single piece of macaroni”). * As a fop, apparently from the British Macaroni Club rather than from Italian use of maccarone for fools and bumpkins. * As a former form of currency, used to calque Spanish macuquino (18th-century colonial slang for a similarly clipped coin).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

""I can recommend this macaroni, for it is my favourite dish: I am very national. You will not take any? Ah, young ladies are, or ought to be, light eaters. Your ladyship will, I trust, set your fair companion an example."" — 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 32:

"Paste made into strings like pack-thread or thongs of whit-leather (which if greater they call Macaroni, if lesser Vermicelli) they cut in pieces and put in their pots as we do oat-meal to make their menestra or broth of." — 1673, John Ray, Observations..., page 405:

"Maccaróni, a kind of meat made of round peeces of paste, boyled in water and put into a dish with butter, spice and grated-cheese vpon them." — 1611, John Florio, Queen Anna's New World of Words, s.v:

"He doth learne to make ſtrange ſauces, to eat ænchouies, maccaroni, bouoli, fagioli, and cauiare, becauſe hee loues ’hem; […]" — 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii, page 203:

"There is indeed a kind of animal, neither male nor female, a thing of the neuter gender, lately started up amongst us. It is called a Macaroni. It talks without meaning, it smiles without pleasantry, it eats without appetite, it rides without exercise, it wenches without passion." — 1770 June, Oxford Magazine, page 228:

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