spaghetti

From Italian spaghetti pl.

• enPR: spə-gĕtʹē; IPA^(key): /spəˈɡɛt.i/

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• (US) IPA^(key): [spəˈɡɛɾ.i]
• Rhymes: -ɛti

spaghetti (usually uncountable, plural spaghettis)

1. A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
2. (by extension) A dish that has spaghetti as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
3. (informal) Any type of pasta.
4. (informal) Electrical insulating tubing.
5. (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.”

6. (countable) A spaghetti western.
7. (informal, programming) 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)

• spag
• Flying Spaghetti Monster
• spaghetti and meatballs
• spaghetti bolognese
• spaghetti code
• spaghettify
• 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

• spaghetti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• pasghetti

From Italian spaghetti.

• IPA^(key): /spa.ɡɛ.ti/, /spa.ɡe.ti/

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spaghetti m (plural spaghettis)

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

• “spaghetti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• IPA^(key): /spaˈɡet.ti/
• Rhymes: -etti
• Hyphenation: spa‧ghét‧ti

spaghetti m pl

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

• spaghettata
• spaghetteria
• spaghettini

• spighetta

Unadapted borrowing from Italian spaghetti.

• IPA^(key): /spaˈɡɛt.ti/

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• Rhymes: -ɛtti
• Syllabification: spa‧ghet‧ti

spaghetti n (indeclinable)

1. spaghetti

• spaghetti in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• spaghetti in Polish dictionaries at PWN

spaghetti m (plural spaghettis)

1. Alternative form of espaguete