spaghetti
See also: Spaghetti
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- enPR: spə-gĕtʹē; IPA(key): /spəˈɡɛt.i/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): [spəˈɡɛɾ.i]
- Rhymes: -ɛti
NounEdit
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[1], 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.”
- (countable) A spaghetti western.
- (informal, programming) Spaghetti code.
Usage notesEdit
- 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 termsEdit
- spag
- Flying Spaghetti Monster
- spaghetti bolognese
- spaghetti code
- spaghettify
- spaghettification
- spaghetti junction
- spaghetti strap
- spaghetti western
- sketti, pasghetti (childish, nonstandard)
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
pasta
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strand of spaghetti
dish containing spaghetti
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informally: any type of pasta — see pasta
electrical insulating tubing
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spaghetti code — see spaghetti code
VerbEdit
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.
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
spaghetti m (plural spaghettis)
Further readingEdit
- “spaghetti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Plural of spaghetto, diminutive of spago (“cord, string”), from Latin spacus (“string”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
spaghetti m pl
Related termsEdit
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PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unadapted borrowing from Italian spaghetti.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
spaghetti n (indeclinable)
Further readingEdit
- spaghetti in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- spaghetti in Polish dictionaries at PWN
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
spaghetti m (plural spaghettis)
- Alternative form of espaguete