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spaghetti
[ spuh-get-ee ]
noun
- a white, starchy pasta of Italian origin that is made in the form of long strings, boiled, and served with any of a variety of meat, tomato, or other sauces.
- Electricity. an insulating tubing of small diameter into which bare wire can be slipped.
spaghetti
/ əˈɡɛɪ /
noun
- pasta in the form of long strings
Usage Note
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of spaghetti1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of spaghetti1
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Example Sentences
I remember the first time I made spaghetti sauce from scratch, long before I understood ratios or had any true sense of technique.
Some 68 years ago today, millions of people tuned into a BBC Panorama report about a Swiss family harvesting spaghetti from trees.
It was usually served with fried plantain, the spicy black pepper sauce "shito", boiled eggs, and sometimes even spaghetti or fried fish.
At about 22:00 BST, the teenager joined her parents in their small kitchen where her mother was putting the finishing touches to the adults' tea, spaghetti bolognese and garlic bread.
They had picnic tables, and they would do a really small menu of some of their pizzas and their spaghetti, and they would have wine and beer.
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How Do You Spell Spaghetti?
Spelling tips for spaghetti
The word spaghetti is hard to spell because, based on how it is pronounced, you wouldn’t expect that h to be there. The double t can also be easy to miss.
How to spell spaghetti: To remember how to properly spell spaghetti, you can think of the phrase “There is a ghost in Betty’s spaghetti.” This reminds you that there is a g followed by an h in the middle of the word, like in the spelling of ghost. It also reminds you of the ending -ett, similar to the double t you find in the word Betty.
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