spaghetti
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Is spaghetti a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (countable, uncountable) A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.Examples: "Her mother was cooking spaghetti for dinner."; "Maccheroni, or Spaghetti, a smaller kind of macaroni, sufficient for the dinner of an ordinary mortal, generally follows the soup. It is as a rule served up with tomato sauce, and Parmesan cheese thickly scattered over it."Synonyms: pasghetti, sketti, spagcountableuncountableusually
2. (countable, uncountable) A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.Synonyms: pasghetti, sketti, spag, spagbroadlycountableuncountableusually
3. (by extension, countable) Denoting Italianness.broadlycountablederogatoryinformaluncountableusually
4. (by extension, countable) Denoting Italianness.abbreviationalt-ofbroadlycountableellipsisuncountableusually
5. (by extension, uncountable, informal, often attributively) Something physically resembling spaghetti (sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.Examples: "spaghetti grid spaghetti junction spaghetti limbs spaghetti strap spaghetti stripes"; "Or how about that spaghetti of cables, adaptors and plugs you keep in a box somewhere, the detritus of old phones, laptops and tablets — each with a different charging point — is that not an example of staggeringly wasteful, bad design?"; "“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.”"attributivebroadlyinformaloftenuncountableusually
6. (by extension, uncountable, informal, often attributively) Something physically resembling spaghetti (sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.attributivebroadlyinformaloftenuncountableusually
noun (English)
1. (rare) plural of spaghettoform-ofpluralrare
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "Visiting members expected to attend, and all will be properly spaghettied."; "Pi Phis spaghettied their mothers and fathers last Saturday evening in the rooms."humorousinformaltransitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "He spaghettied the referee when he landed on him."informaltransitive
3. (transitive)Examples: "All these are spaghettied together, as the following boxscore will show: […]"; ""What makes you think this watercolorist and I would develop a romantic relationship?" Sissy's brow was spaghettied."; "A twenty-foot ceiling was spaghettied by ductwork and ladders – not library rollers on rails, just foldable aluminium ladders – supplied for those willing to climb their way to erudition."informaltransitive
4. (intransitive)Examples: "I have "spaghettied" from Ventimiglia to Brindisi and I doubt if I have ever eaten as excellent spaghetti, certainly none better nor richer, than I have enjoyed in the home of a very charming Maryland hostess."humorousinformalintransitive
5. (intransitive)Examples: "The oldest Lark spaghettied down to a noodle and slithered through the letterbox-like hole at the bottom of the cistern."informalintransitive
6. (intransitive)Examples: "The cables spaghettied onto the shoulder of the technician."; "These elegant instrument pods will bring all the instruments within eye range of the most nearsighted skipper, keep his bulkhead intact and eliminate all those messy wires spaghettiing around."; "[H]is instrument looked like a Rube Goldberg contraption. It was rigged from electronic bits and pieces, put together with wires that habitually spaghettied out of its grey metal box."informalintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary