relating to language, especially in poetry, that includes words and expressions from another language 与语言有关,尤其是在诗歌中,包括另一种语言的单词和表达 Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘characteristic of a jumble or medley’): from modern Latin macaronicus, from obsolete Italian macaronico, a humorous formation from macaroni, plural of maccarone, from late Greek makaria ‘food made from barley’.