macaroon

From French macaron. Doublet of macaron.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmæk.əˈɹuːn/

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• Rhymes: -uːn

macaroon (plural macaroons)

1. A soft biscuit or cookie prepared with almond or coconut dough.
   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 208:

     I will take charge of the cake department, including, if I remember rightly, plum and plain, rout cakes, and macaroons, finger biscuits, and cracknels.

2. Alternative spelling of macaron.

Borrowed from Italian macarone.

macaroon (plural macaroons)

1. (archaic) A coarse, rude, low fellow.
   • 1590s, John Donne, Satire IV, "Well; I may now receive, and die":

     Like a big wife, at sight of lothed meat,

     Ready to travail; so I sigh and sweat,

     To hear this macaroon talk on in vain.

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