spaghetti
noun
spa·ghet·ti
spə-ˈge-tē 
1
: pasta made in thin solid strings
2
: insulating tubing typically of varnished cloth or of plastic for covering bare wire or holding insulated wires together
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For $12, visitors can get a spaghetti plate with garlic bread, no meatballs included.
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Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
Surrounding areas: Expect heavier than usual traffic on the turnpike headed toward Hard Rock Stadium, and on Interstate 95 headed toward the Golden Glades’ spaghetti bowl of exchanges.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
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Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2024
Surrounding areas: Expect heavier than usual traffic on the turnpike headed toward Hard Rock Stadium, and on Interstate 95 headed toward the Golden Glades’ spaghetti bowl of exchanges.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
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spaghetti
noun
spa·ghet·ti
spə-ˈget-ē
: a food made chiefly of a mixture of flour and water dried in the form of thin solid strings
Etymology
from Italian spaghetti "pasta made in long strings," from spaghetti, plural of spaghetto "little string," from spago "string"
Word Origin
The Italian word spago means "cord, string." The suffix -etto in Italian, like the suffix -ette in English, means "little one." Added together, spago and -etto become spaghetto, which means "little string." "Little string" describes very well the shape of a strand of spaghetti. The word spaghetti is actually the plural form of spaghetto.
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