spaghetti
spaghetti
Definition
spa·ghetti (spə get′ē)
noun
- pasta in the form of long, thin strings, cooked by boiling or steaming and served with a sauce
- Elec. an insulating tubing somewhat resembling macaroni, used for sheathing a bare wire or several insulated wires
Etymology: It, pl. of spaghetto, dim. of spago, small cord
spaghetti
Usage Examples
Preposition: on
- toast: I have had more than a few nights waking upto cold spaghetti on toast and a solictor waiting to have a chat.
Adjective modifier
- tinned: Shopping for food is useless as I can only think of porridge and tinned spaghetti, the comfort food from my childhood.
- canned: The mean concentration of tin in canned spaghetti from a previous JFSSG survey of canned products was 66 mg/kg.
- wholemeal: One portion of boiled wholemeal spaghetti ( 220g ) contains 7.7g of fiber.
Converse of object
- cook: I now consider badly cooked spaghetti to be victory food.
- eat: Older Children act out subjects like eating spaghetti or doing up shoe laces.
- dry: Dried spaghetti can be cut accurately by rolling it gently under a scalpel blade to score it, and then snapping.
- have: B- On Monday night, we had spaghetti with homemade sauce with italian sausage.
- make: For dinner, make spaghetti with tomato and fresh basil sauce instead of a meat sauce.
- use: If you prefer you could use spaghetti or linguini.
Modifies a noun
- bolognaise: He also finds time to cook a mean spaghetti bolognaise!
- bolognese: Their meal usually consists of a choice between chicken, pasta dishes like spaghetti bolognese or lasagna, or fish.
- carbonara: I make spaghetti carbonara - relishing the brief opportunity to eat real food - then phone Sarah.
- vongole: Any fondness I may have developed for eating there was curtailed by a serious bout of food poisoning brought on by the spaghetti vongole.
- hoop: I really fancy Toast with spaghetti hoops on top covered in melted cheese.
- western: Hang on a minute, you may say, spaghetti westerns aren't opera.
Preposition: in
- sauce: The national dish is stewed rabbit, which is usually served after spaghetti in a wine sauce.
Preposition: of
- wire: Brendon my eldest son training to be an electrician made sense of the spaghetti of wires we had inherited.
Preposition: with
- sauce: B- On Monday night, we had spaghetti with homemade sauce with italian sausage.
Noun used with modifier
- alphabet: My group chose to buy alphabet spaghetti, pasta sauce and cans of coke.
spaghetti Quotes
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man.
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
Browse dictionary entries near spaghetti
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