Puttanesca definitions
Being or served with a pungent sauce of tomatoes, olives, garlic, anchovies, capers, and hot chili pepper.
Pasta puttanesca.
adjective
Puttanesca sauce.
noun
Origin of puttanesca
From Italian alla puttanesca in puttanesca style from puttanesca feminine of puttanesco like a prostitute, filthy from Old Italian from puttana female prostitute from Old French putain from pute feminine of put foul, stinking from Latin pūtidus from pūtēre to be rotten, stink pū̆- in Indo-European roots