spaghetti
Meanings
noun
- A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
- A dish that has spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
- Denoting Italianness.
- An Italian person.
- Ellipsis of spaghetti western (“a motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy”).
- Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
- Electrical insulating tubing or electrical wiring.
- Roads forming a complex junction, especially one with multiple levels on a motorway.
- Something confusing or intricate.
- Ellipsis of spaghetti code (“unstructured or poorly structured program source code, especially code with many GOTO statements or their equivalent”).
noun
- plural of spaghetto
verb
- To serve (someone) spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
- To cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch.
- To cause (something) to become tangled.
- To eat spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
- To become, or appear to become, longer and thinner.
- To become tangled.
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Etymology
The noun is borrowed from Italian spaghetti, the plural of spaghetto (“dish of spaghetti; (rare) strand of spaghetti”), from spago (“cord, string, twine; thread”) + -etto (diminutive suffix). Spago is derived from Latin spagus (“twine”), probably from Ancient Greek σφάκος (sphákos, “apple sage (Salvia pomifera)”), probably from Pre-Greek. The verb is derived from the noun.
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