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SPAGHETTI
spaghetti
(noun) pasta in the form of long strings
spaghetti
(noun) spaghetti served with a tomato sauce
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
spaghetti (usually uncountable, plural spaghettis)
A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
A dish that has spaghetti as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
(informal) Any type of pasta.
(informal) Electrical insulating tubing.
(informal) Anything tangled or confusing.
(countable) A spaghetti western.
(informal, programming) Spaghetti code.
Usage notes
• An individual strand is called a piece of spaghetti or a strand of spaghetti, or rarely spaghetto, derived from the Italian form.
• Often used with another noun to convey a spaghetti-like attribute, such as thinness (spaghetti strap, spaghetti stripes), Italianness (spaghetti western), flexibility (spaghetti limbs), or intertwining strands (spaghetti code, spaghetti junction, spaghetti grid)
Verb
spaghetti (third-person singular simple present spaghettis, present participle spaghettiing, simple past and past participle spaghettied)
(intransitive) To become, or appear to become longer and thinner.
(transitive) To stretch to become longer and thinner.
Anagrams
• pasghetti
Source: Wiktionary
Spa*ghet"ti, n. Etym: [It.]
Definition: A variety or macaroni made in tubes of small diameter.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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