spaghetti
See also: Spaghetti
English
dry spaghetti (1)
cooked spaghetti (1)
Etymology
From Italian spaghetti pl.
Pronunciation
- enPR: spə-gĕtʹē; IPA(key): /spəˈɡɛt.i/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): [spəˈɡɛɾ.i]
- Rhymes: -ɛti
Noun
spaghetti (usually uncountable, plural spaghettis)
- A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
- (by extension) 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.
- 2021 October 2, Liz Alderman, “As Bikers Throng the Streets, ‘It’s Like Paris Is in Anarchy’”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- “But the infrastructure is like spaghetti,” he continued. “It’s chaotic, it doesn’t connect up and there’s no cohesive network. If you can get that right, it will eliminate a lot of confusion.”
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- (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)
Derived terms
- spag
- Flying Spaghetti Monster
- spaghetti and meatballs
- spaghetti bolognese
- spaghetti code
- spaghettify
- spaghettification
- spaghetti junction
- spaghetti strap
- spaghetti western
- sketti, pasghetti (childish, nonstandard)
Related terms
- spaghettini
- spaghettoni
Translations
pasta
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strand of spaghetti
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dish containing spaghetti
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informally: any type of pasta — see pasta
electrical insulating tubing
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anything tangled or confusing
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spaghetti code — see spaghetti code
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.
- 2006, Richard E. Grant, The Wah-Wah Diaries: The Making of a Film - Page 11
- "Call it what you will, but as soon as you think you've got your dish ready to serve, it spaghettis all over the place and you have to clean up the mess."
- The cables spaghettied onto the shoulder of the technician.
- 2006, Richard E. Grant, The Wah-Wah Diaries: The Making of a Film - Page 11
- (transitive) To stretch to become longer and thinner.
- He spaghettied the referee when he landed on him.
See also
- noodle
- pasta
- spag
Further reading
spaghetti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- pasghetti
French
Etymology
From Italian spaghetti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spa.ɡɛ.ti/, /spa.ɡe.ti/
Audio (file)
Noun
spaghetti m (plural spaghettis)
- (usually in the plural) spaghetti
- strand of spaghetti
Further reading
- “spaghetti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Plural of spaghetto, diminutive of spago (“cord, string”), from Latin spacus (“string”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spaˈɡet.ti/
- Rhymes: -etti
- Hyphenation: spa‧ghét‧ti
Noun
spaghetti m pl
- plural of spaghetto
- a dish of spaghetti
- fine strings
Related terms
- spaghettata
- spaghetteria
- spaghettini
Anagrams
- spighetta
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Italian spaghetti.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spaˈɡɛt.ti/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛtti
- Syllabification: spa‧ghet‧ti
Noun
spaghetti n (indeclinable)
- spaghetti
Further reading
- spaghetti in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- spaghetti in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Noun
spaghetti m (plural spaghettis)
- Alternative form of espaguete