English Explanatory Dictionary

manicot

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. manicotti.

Word forms

manicot manicots

Etymology

From the American Neapolitan pronunciation spelling of manicotti. In Neapolitan, the final vowel of a word is reduced to a schwa, which is further apocopated, hence the deletion of -i.

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