2. (old).—A dandy from 1760-75. [From the Macaroni Club, which introduced Italian macaroni at Almack's].
1764. Walpole, To Hertford, 27 May. Lady Falkener's daughter is to be married to a young rich Mr. Crewe, a macarone, and of our loo.
1768. Hall Stevenson, Makarony Fables (addressed to the Society of Macaronies) Title.
1770. Oxford Magazine, iv. 228, 2. 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 macaronie. It talks without meaning, it smiles without pleasantry, it eats without appetite, it rides without exercise.
1770. Foote, Lame Lover, i. 1. Frederick is a bit of macaroni, and adores the soft Italian termination in a.
1772. G. A. Stevens, Songs Comic & Satyrical, 139. Macaronies so neat, Pert Jemmies so sweet.
1773. Fergusson, Auld Reekie (Poems, 1851, p. 130). Close by his side, a feckless race O' macaronies show their face.
1774. Burgoyne, Maid of the Oaks, ii. 1. All the macaronies passed by, whistling a song through their tooth-*picks, and giving a shrug.
1776. Garrick, High Life above Stairs, i. 1. Sir T. This fellow would turn rake and macaroni if he were to stay here a week longer. Bless me, what dangers are in this town at every step!
1779. Mrs. Cowling, Who's the Dupe? ii. 2. You! you for to turn fop and macaroni!
1785. Grose, Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1790. The Busy Bee (quoted in), ii. 248. Some macaronies there came in, All dressed so neat, and looked so thin.
1805. G. Barrington, New London Spy (4th ed.), p. 53. The present degenerate race of macaronies, who appear to be of a spurious puny breed.
1820. C. Lamb, Elia, 'South Sea House,' in Works [1852], p. 316. He wore his hair, to the last, powdered and frizzed out, in the fashion which I remember to have seen in caricatures of what were termed, in my young days, maccaronies.
1834. Ainsworth, Rookwood, 1. ix. Though a Frenchman he was a deuced fine fellow in his day—quite a tip-top maccaroni.
1883. A. Dobson, Hogarth, p. 56. A slim macaroni, with his hair in curl papers, and his queue loose like a woman's tresses.
1885. Daily Telegraph, 14 Aug., p. 5, col. 1. The hat of the maccaroni has gone out as surely as the lights at Ranelagh, or the masquerades in Soho.
3. (American).—A Maryland regiment noted for its smartness, which took part in the Revolution.—'Stuck a feather in his cap, and called it macaroni'.—Yankee Doodle.
4. (rhyming).—A pony.
Adj. (old).—1. Foppish; affected; and (2) see quot. 1742. Also macaronian and macaronical.
1596. Nashe, Have With You [Grosart, iii. 47]. One Dick Litchfield . . . who hath translated my Piers Pennilesse into the macaronicall tongue.
1742. Cambridge, The Scribleriad, b. ii. note 16. The macaronian is a kind of burlesque poetry, consisting of a jumble of words of different languages, with words of the vulgar tongue latinized, and latin words modernized.
1773. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, Epil. Ye travelled tribe, ye macaroni train.
1806. J. Dallaway, Obs. Eng. Arch., 222. Travellers who have seen . . . will look on the architecture of Bath as belonging to the macaronick order.
Macaroni-stake, subs. (old).—A
race ridden by a gentleman-jock
(q.v.).—Bee (1823).
Macaroon, subs. (old).—An affected
blockhead.
1650. Elegy on Donne [Nares]. A macaroon, And no way fit to speak to clouted shoon.
