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Message board > New Word for "Daffynition" 21/11/17
New Word for "Daffynition" 21/11/17
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agagug
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New Word for "Daffynition" 21/11/17
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Thank you MoodyMoody! I just love this game! I also want to thank every participant for expending my English culture. Yeah! Here we want wit, goof, anything but an actual dictionary definition. This week, have fun with "macaronic". I �ll be picking up the winner this coming Monday. |
21 Nov 2017
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jfaraujo
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Macaronic is the name of a cook specialised in baking macaroons, that very special French biscuit. |
21 Nov 2017
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jfaraujo
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Macaronic was a failed inventor who tried to follow in the footsteps of the great inventor Marconi, but could not invent anything productive or noteworthy. The word has since become an adjective which is synomym fo unsuccesful or unlucky. I |
21 Nov 2017
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jfaraujo
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Macaronic was the language spoken by an ancient and mysterious people, the Macaron, who lived in southern Europe, more precisely where we now find Italy. This people left some traces of its presence in the current Italian language, more precisely the "i" ending in its words. |
21 Nov 2017
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maryse pey�
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Macaronic is very well known in Scotland ! It is kinda laugh at an obsession about the name RON.
It is the nickname of every family MAC with several close members named RON at the same period..
MAC is to start then you have the article A to indicate the singular. The singular ? Yes for A group of RON (s) !
And finally the suffix IC is for IRONIC... |
21 Nov 2017
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cunliffe
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Macaronic is an adjective, of course. It describes a person who has eaten too many macaroons. They go crazy, bonkers, off their trolley, plum crazy, box of bats crazy, completely unhinged, in fact... macaronic. It only happens with a certain kind of macaroon, the ones made with magic cherries. Tasty, but deadly.
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21 Nov 2017
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ldthemagicman
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Macaronic. Lots of scrupulously honest teachers of English don �t recognise the extent to which corruption plays a part in our history. The word macaronic, for example, is a corruption of two words, originally: �Mac Ironic � The first word, Mac, needs no explaining! It is, of course, a synonym for, �Scottish �. �Ironic �, has many synonyms, and also has lots of words which mean the same as �ironic �, such as: �Sardonic �; �Laconic �; Sarcastic; �Satiric; etc. Sardonic is the Italian version from Sardinia, Laconic is the Lancashire version, Sarcastic is the version from �you know where �, and Satiric is the �adult version �, which describes what the Satyrs do when they are ... well, �being adults �. (N.B. Children may be reading this Post.) Some people think that Mac Ironic is the Scottish verb �to iron �, For example, "Iron the pleats out of my kilt!" But, they are wrong! I will give you an example of a sentence using this Figure of Speech. "This jelly is as hard as iron!" Or, in the vernacular: "Yon sonsie wee pudn is nae sae scrivven as thon widdershins greet couthie tottie wi its neeps. Sae, wheesht yer bletherin!" I think that says it all, really! Les Douglas
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21 Nov 2017
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MoodyMoody
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Obviously I �m not eligible, but I want to play anyway! "Macaronic" is an adjective describing someone dancing the Macarena (very popular nearly 20 years ago) and looking like a moron doing it. See Al Gore at the Democratic National Convention in 2000: I tried to put it under the text, and it wouldn �t stay there. |
21 Nov 2017
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douglas
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When a person is a "wet noodle" they are drab, lacking energy, and not really fun to be around ( a real sleeping pill). Macaronni is a type of paste Chronic means something is persistnat or long term. a macaronic is therefore, a chronically boring person (not the guy you want at your party). Cheers, Douglas |
22 Nov 2017
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teresasimoes
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"Macaronic" means you´re speaking a foreign language for the first time, desperately trying to make yourself be understood. Oh, dear! she´s speaking a "macaronic" English! |
24 Nov 2017
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agagug
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macaronic(ˌmækəˈrɑnɪk ; makˌəränˈik) And the winner is... Les Douglas! Sorry for the others, Les is definetely in a league of his own. It becomes more and more difficult trying to find a way not to choose his crazy Daffynitions. Way to go Les! You deserve it. Up to you now. |
27 Nov 2017
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