"macaroon" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌmæk.əɹˈuːn/ [UK], /ˌmæk.əˈɹun/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-macaroon.wav [Southern-England] Forms: macaroons [plural]
Rhymes: -uːn Etymology: From French macaron. Doublet of macaron. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|macaron}} French macaron, {{doublet|en|macaron}} Doublet of macaron Head templates: {{en-noun}} macaroon (plural macaroons)
  1. A soft biscuit or cookie prepared with almond or coconut dough. Translations (soft biscuit or cookie prepared with almond or coconut dough): ореховка (orehovka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 蛋白杏仁餅 (Chinese Mandarin), 蛋白杏仁饼 (dànbái xìngrénbǐng) (Chinese Mandarin), makron [common-gender] (Danish), bitterkoekje (Dutch), kokoskoekje (Dutch), makron [masculine] (Dutch), macaron (Finnish), macaron-leivos (Finnish), congolais (French), rocher coco [masculine] (French), Makrone [feminine] (German), αμυγδαλωτό (amygdalotó) [neuter] (Greek), csók (note: usually in compounds or with an adjective) (Hungarian), mandulacsók (note: with almond) (Hungarian), mandulás csók (Hungarian), kókuszcsók (note: with coconut) (Hungarian), amaretto (Italian), makron [masculine] (Norwegian), makaronik [masculine] (Polish), минда́льное пече́нье (mindálʹnoje pečénʹje) [neuter] (Russian), macarrón (Spanish), macarone (Spanish), makron [common-gender] (Swedish), makaron (Turkish), מאַקעראָנדל (makerondl) [neuter] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-macaroon-en-noun-F6GBhO1n Disambiguation of 'soft biscuit or cookie prepared with almond or coconut dough': 99 1
  2. Alternative spelling of macaron Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: macaron Categories (topical): Sweets
    Sense id: en-macaroon-en-noun-Sk54p8v4 Disambiguation of Sweets: 28 57 14 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 75 21 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 3 72 24
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: French macaroon
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: macaroons [plural]
Etymology: From Italian macarone. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|macarone}} Italian macarone Head templates: {{en-noun}} macaroon (plural macaroons)
  1. (archaic) A coarse, rude, low fellow. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-macaroon-en-noun-Vyp3ij0n
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Italian macarone.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "macaroons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "macaroon (plural macaroons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1590s, John Donne, Satire IV, \"Well; I may now receive, and die\"",
          "text": "Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat,\nReady to travail; so I sigh and sweat,\nTo hear this macaroon talk on in vain."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A coarse, rude, low fellow."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) A coarse, rude, low fellow."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "macaroon"
}

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