spaghetti

From Italian spaghetti pl.

• enPR: spəgĕtʹē, IPA^(key): /spəˈɡɛti/
• (US) IPA^(key): [spəˈɡɛɾi]
• Rhymes: -ɛti

spaghetti (usually uncountable, plural spaghettis)

1. A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
2. A dish that has spaghetti as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
3. Informally, any type of pasta.
4. Electrical insulating tubing.
5. Anything tangled or confusing.
6. (countable) A spaghetti western.
7. Spaghetti code.

• 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)

• Flying Spaghetti Monster
• spaghetti bolognese
• spaghetti code
• spaghettification
• spaghetti junction
• spaghetti strap
• spaghetti western
• sketti, pasghetti (childish, nonstandard)

• spaghettini
• spaghettoni

spaghetti (third-person singular simple present spaghettis, present participle spaghettiing, simple past and past participle spaghettied)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To stretch to become longer and thinner.

   He spaghettied the referee when he landed on him.

• noodle
• pasta
• spag

• pasghetti

From Italian spaghetti.

• IPA^(key): /spa.ɡe.ti/

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spaghetti m (plural spaghettis)

1. (usually in the plural) spaghetti
2. strand of spaghetti

• “spaghetti” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Plural of spaghetto, diminutive of spago (“cord, string”), from Latin spacus (“string”).

• IPA^(key): /spaˈɡetti/, [späˈɡet̪ːi]
• Hyphenation: spa‧ghét‧ti

spaghetti m pl

1. plural of spaghetto
2. a dish of spaghetti
3. fine strings

• spaghettata
• spaghetteria
• spaghettini

From Italian spaghetti.

• IPA^(key): /spaˈɡɛt.ti/

spaghetti n

1. spaghetti

spaghetti m (plural spaghettis)

1. Alternative form of espaguete