spaghetti

EnglishEdit

dry spaghetti (1)

cooked spaghetti (1)

EtymologyEdit

From Italian spaghetti pl.

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

Arabic: سْبَاغِيتِي‎ (sbāḡītī)
Hijazi Arabic: سْبَقِتِّي / سپقتي‎ f (sbagitti, spagitti), سْبَاقيتِّي / سپاقيتي‎ f (sbagētti, spagētti)
Armenian: սպագետտի (spagetti)
Atikamekw: spaktci
Basque: espageti
Belarusian: спаге́ці n pl (spahjéci)
Bulgarian: спагети (spageti)
Burmese: စပါဂတီ (ca.paga.ti)
Catalan: espagueti (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 意大利粉 (ji³ daai⁶ lei⁶ fan²), 意粉 (ji³ fan²) (abbreviation)

Mandarin: 意大利麵 (zh), 意大利面 (zh) (yìdàlìmiàn) (Mainland), 義大利麵 (zh), 义大利面 (zh) (yìdàlìmiàn) (Taiwan), 意大利麵條 (zh), 意大利面条 (zh) (Yìdàlì miàntiáo) (Mainland), 義大利麵條 (zh), 义大利面条 (zh) (Yìdàlì miàntiáo) (Taiwan), 意大利粉 (zh) (yìdàlìfěn) (Mainland), 義大利粉 (zh), 义大利粉 (zh) (yìdàlìfěn) (Taiwan), 意粉 (zh) (yìfěn) (Mainland, abbreviation), 義粉 (zh), 义粉 (zh) (yìfěn) (Taiwan, abbreviation), 意麵 (zh), 意面 (zh) (yìmiàn), 義麵 (zh), 义面 (zh) (yìmiàn)
Czech: špagety f pl
Dutch: spaghetti (nl) m
Esperanto: spagetoj pl
Estonian: spagetid pl
Finnish: spagetti (fi)
French: spaghettis (fr) m pl
Georgian: სპაგეტი (sṗageṭi)
German: Spaghetti (de) f pl, Spagetti (de) f pl
Greek: μακαρόνια (el) n pl (makarónia)
Hebrew: סְפָּגֶטִי‎ (he)
Hindi: स्पघेटी (spagheṭī)
Hungarian: spagetti (hu)
Icelandic: spagettí n, spaghettí n
Irish: spaigití m
Italian: spaghetto (it) m
Japanese: スパゲッティ (ja) (supagetti)
Khmer: ស្ប៉ាហ្គេតទី (spaageittii)
Korean: 스파게티 (ko) (seupageti)
Macedonian: шпагети (mk) (špageti)
Malay: spageti (ms)
Maori: noke parāoa, pāketi
Mongolian: шпагетти (špagetti)
Navajo: kʼíneeshbízhiinééz
Northern Sami: spageahtta
Norwegian:
Bokmål: spagetti m

Nynorsk: spagetti m
Persian: اسپاگتی‎ (fa) (espâgeti)
Polish: spaghetti (pl) n
Portuguese: espaguete (pt) m
Romanian: spaghete (ro) f pl
Russian: спаге́тти (ru) n pl (spagétti)
Scottish Gaelic: spaghetti f
Slovak: špagety f pl
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: špagetije pl
Spanish: espagueti (es) m
Swahili: spageti
Swedish: spagetti (sv) c, spaghetti (sv) c
Tagalog: ispageti
Thai: สปาเกตตี (th) (sà-bpaa-gét-dtîi)
Turkish: spagetti (tr)
Ukrainian: спаге́ті n pl (spahéti)
Welsh: sbageti (cy) m

strand of spaghetti

Basque: espageti
Catalan: espagueti (ca) m
Czech: špageta (cs) f
French: spaghetti (fr) m
Greek: μακαρόνι (el) n (makaróni)
Italian: spaghetto (it) m
Polish: spaghetti (pl) n pl
Romanian: spaghetă f
Russian: спаге́ттина f (spagéttina)
Slovak: špageta f

dish containing spaghetti

Basque: espageti
Catalan: espagueti (ca) m
Czech: špagety f pl
French: spaghettis (fr) m pl
Greek: μακαρόνια (el) n pl (makarónia)
Italian: spaghetti (it) m pl
Japanese: スパゲッティ (ja) (supagetti)
Polish: spaghetti (pl) n
Romanian: spaghete (ro) f pl
Russian: спаге́тти (ru) n pl (spagétti)
Slovak: špagety f pl

informally: any type of pasta — see pasta

electrical insulating tubing

Czech: bužírka f
French: gaine (fr) f
German: Isolationsschlauch m
Slovak: bužírka f

anything tangled or confusing

Catalan: laberint (ca) m

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.
(transitive) To stretch to become longer and thinner.
He spaghettied the referee when he landed on him.