spaghetti
pronunciation
How to pronounce spaghetti in British English:
UK [spəˈɡeti]
How to pronounce spaghetti in American English:
US [spəˈɡeti]
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- Noun:
- pasta in the form of long strings
Word Origin
- spaghetti
- spaghetti: [19] Spaghetti comes from the plural of Italian spaghetto, a diminutive form of spago ‘string’ (a word of uncertain origin). The earliest record of its use in English is by Eliza Acton in her Modern Cookery 1849, but it was still sufficiently unfamiliar then for her to mis-spell it sparghetti.
- spaghetti (n.)
- 1849 (as sparghetti, in Eliza Acton's "Modern Cookery"), from Italian spaghetti, plural of spaghetto "string, twine," diminutive of spago "cord," of uncertain origin. Spaghetti Western (one filmed in Italy) first attested 1969. Spaghetti strap is from 1972.
Example
- 1. Susan : what kind of spaghetti sauce is this ?
- 2. Slovak-style spaghetti is served at the bill restaurant , named after - who else ?
- 3. I asked him and he showed me something that looked like bee hoon but was more like spaghetti .
- 4. Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code . It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches .
- 5. As the sun sets over tokyo , another case is about to reach its climax on a bridge across a spaghetti of railway lines .