Usually means: Mixing languages within speech, writing.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word macaronic:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. macaronic: Merriam-Webster
  2. macaronic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. macaronic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. macaronic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. macaronic: Vocabulary.com
  6. macaronic: Wordnik
  7. macaronic: Wiktionary
  8. macaronic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. macaronic: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Macaronic, macaronic: Dictionary.com
  11. macaronic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Macaronic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Macaronic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. macaronic: Rhymezone
  15. Macaronic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. macaronic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. macaronic: FreeDictionary.org
  18. macaronic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. macaronic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. macaronic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Macaronic: World Wide Words

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. macaronic: A Word A Day

(Note: See macaronics as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (macaronic)

adjective:  (archaic) Jumbled, mixed.
adjective:  (literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
adjective:  (dated) Like a macaroni or dandy; foppish, trifling, affected.
noun:  (literature) A work of macaronic character.
noun:  (linguistic morphology) A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages.
noun:  Such a word that mixes Latin morphemes with non-Latin ones.

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