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spaghetti

Syllabification: (spa·ghet·ti)
Pronunciation: /spəˈgetē/
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Definition of spaghetti

noun

  • pasta made in long, slender, solid strings.
  • an Italian dish consisting largely of this, typically with a sauce.
  • Electronics a type of narrow tubing that encases and insulates wire.
  • a tangle of stringlike objects, resembling a plate of cooked spaghetti:a clumsy spaghetti of coils and wires

Origin:

Italian, plural of the diminutive of spago 'string'

Spaghetti (an Italian word) is spelled with an h after the g; the ending is -tti.

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