macaronic

Meanings

Adjective

• jumbled, mixed
• Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
• Like a macaroni or dandy; foppish, trifling, affected.

Noun

• A work of macaronic character.
• A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages, one of which is Latin, or a non-Latin stem with a Latin ending.

Origin

• From New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from Italian maccarone.