""homophobia" seems as badly cast as the so-called "scientific" word "homosexual" itself, except that "homophobia" does not have a macaronic etymology..."
- Lawrence R. Schehr, Figures of Alterity (2003)

"Macaronic words are formed by the addition of terminations of one language to roots of another language. Macaronic compositions, written in burlesque, contain, generally, genuine words from both languages, interspersed among the hybrid compounds."
- Hubert M. Skinner, The Schoolmaster in Comedy and Satire (1894)

edit: I'm going to send these to Jesse S.!

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