subs. (old).—An affected blockhead.

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  1650.  R. B., Elegy on Donne.

        Called him a strong-lined man, a MACAROON,
And no way fit to speak to clouted shoon.

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  1734.  POPE, Satires of Donne, iv. 116, 117.

                        I sigh, and sweat
To hear this MAKARON talk: in vain.

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