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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Back home, kids' meals in New Jersey cost anywhere from $12, $16 or recently, $20 for a plain bowl of spaghetti.
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Leigh Scheps, Parents, 21 July 2025
The chain's signature formula of chili with cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg, poured over a plate of spaghetti and topped with a mound of cheddar cheese, is arguably as emblematic of the Greater Cincinnati region as the Bengals or the Roebling Bridge.
—Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 16 July 2025
One of Olivia Tiedemann's most memorable meals was a simple dish of spaghetti with tomato sauce.
—Paul Rhodes, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025
Once something has been designated as an invest, specialized data sets and computer models can begin, including scheduling Hurricane Hunter aircraft missions and running spaghetti models.
—Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 14 July 2025
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Leigh Scheps, Parents, 21 July 2025
The chain's signature formula of chili with cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg, poured over a plate of spaghetti and topped with a mound of cheddar cheese, is arguably as emblematic of the Greater Cincinnati region as the Bengals or the Roebling Bridge.
—Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 16 July 2025
One of Olivia Tiedemann's most memorable meals was a simple dish of spaghetti with tomato sauce.
—Paul Rhodes, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025
Once something has been designated as an invest, specialized data sets and computer models can begin, including scheduling Hurricane Hunter aircraft missions and running spaghetti models.
—Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 14 July 2025
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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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