spaghettin.
/spəˈɡɛti/, U.S. /spəˈɡɛdi/ 1.
a. A variety of pasta made in long thin strings. Occasionally, a dish of spaghetti.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pasta > [noun] > types of pasta
macaroona1425
vermicellia1668
macaroni1673
pipe macaroni1778
spaghetti1845
ziti1845
angel hair1890
mezzani1895
pappardelle1899
mostaccioli1904
perciatelli1906
rigatoni1911
orzo1917
penne1919
linguine1920
fettuccine1922
fusilli1929
spag1948
rotini1949
spaghettini1953
rotelle1956
stelline1958
spaggers1960
conchiglie1968
ruote1972
orecchiette1975
manicotti1983
radiatore1986
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery (ed. 4) p. xxx Sparghetti [sic]—Naples vermicelli.
1888 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) lvii. 1298 Maccheroni, or Spaghetti, a smaller kind of macaroni..generally follows the soup.
1892 M. Gironci Recipes Ital. Cookery 59 Stewed Steak and Spaghetti.
1921 F. Swinnerton Coquette ii. xvi. 175 The waitress approached, bearing two large plates piled high with spaghetti.
1931 ‘B. Starke’ Touch & Go iv. 51 A..schoolteacher took us to lunch in Avon and showed us how to manage yards of spaghetti by rolling it up on our forks.
1949 J. More Land of Italy 4 A capacity to eat..pasta is an essential requirement... The principal varieties..are the rope-like spaghetti of Naples, the pipe-like macaroni,..and the omelet-like cannelloni.
1956 N. de la Fère Italian Bouquet vi. 66 He slipped the menu under my eyes... I..refused to admit that the only recognisable word was ‘spaghetti’.
1965 C. K. Stead in N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 2nd Ser. 337 Julian came into Gomeo's and asked for a spaghetti.
1981 M. Nabb Death of Englishman ii. iii. 97 Old men..munching slowly at their spaghetti with toothless gums.
b. figurative and transferred.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > [noun] > wires collectively
wiring1883
spaghetti1935
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > [noun] > insulation for wires
loom1917
spaghetti tubing1922
systoflex1922
spaghetti1960
1935 A. Huxley Let. 17 Feb. (1969) 391 Orlo Williams..has read every inch of spaghetti that has ever emerged from the Italian presses.
1940 O. Nash Face is Familiar 195 And they give you a look that implies that your spine is spaghetti and your soul is lard.
1946 F. Hamann Air Words 50 Spaghetti, (1) electric wiring; (2) strings of sealing compound.
1960 N. M. Cooke & J. Markus Electronics & Nucleonics Dict. 446/2 Spaghetti, insulating tubing used over bare wires or as a sleeve for holding two or more insulated wires together. The tubing is usually made of varnished cloth or a plastic.
1973 C. Williams Man on Leash (1974) viii. 119 He was always..experimenting and lashing up nutty pieces of electronic spaghetti.
1981 T. Barling Bikini Red North xiii. 276 His vasectomy could be reversed. ‘New techniques... We can join up all that miniature spaghetti with incredible accuracy.’
2. An Italian: usually contemptuous. slang.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Italy
Itailec1400
Italian1439
Italianate1587
trans alpiner1599
transalpine1617
Eyetalian1838
macaroni1845
ice-creamer1851
Eyetie1919
paesanoa1930
spaghetti1931
1931 ‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route iii. 38 Italian hobos are equally rare. They are the ‘wops’ or ‘spaghettis’.
1977 New Society 29 Sept. 651/1 When the war criminal, Herbert Kappler, who served a life sentence for having commanded an execution squad that massacred 335 Italian civilians, was spirited out of a military hospital in Rome by his wife, this was generally welcomed [in Germany] with an almost racialist feeling of superiority vis-a-vis those doting spaghettis.
3. Complex roadways forming a multi-level junction, esp. on a motorway. colloquial.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] > types of road junction
clover-leaf1933
interchange1944
T-junction1954
Y junction1961
spaghetti1963
box junction1964
box1966
spaghetti junction1971
ring junction1972
gyratory1983
1963 Lebende Sprachen 8 166/1 Driver talk..Plenty of spaghetti.
1966 Guardian 4 June 14/2 Details of one of the biggest pieces of motorway spaghetti so far designed in Britain were published... It is the Gravelly Hill interchange on the M6.
1972 Daily Tel. 19 June 19/3 The transport profession has produced its own jargon... Multi-level motorway-junctions are ‘plates of spaghetti’.
1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Feb. 184/5 The best-known examples [of three-dimensional mazes] are motorway spaghetti, aesthetically unpleasing and disturbing to drive through.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
spaghetti house n.
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1962 I. Fleming Spy who loved Me i. ii. 34 Derek took me right across London to a spaghetti house called ‘The Bamboo’.
spaghetti joint n.
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1900 G. Ade Fables in Slang 158 He knew his Works were good, because all the Free and Untrammeled Souls in the Spaghetti Joint told him so.
1982 H. Engel Murder on Location (1983) ix. 87 I could see a spaghetti joint across the street.
spaghetti sauce n.
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1953 A. Boni Talisman Italian Cook Bk. xiii. 222 (heading) Spaghetti sauce home style.
1968 C. Drummond Death & Leaping Ladies v. 111 He was neatly avoiding spilling spaghetti sauce over a very snappy jacket.
1980 B. Freemantle Charlie Muffin's Uncle Sam vii. 73 The man hadn't changed his shirt... There was spaghetti sauce on the collar.
spaghetti tongs n.
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1972 House & Garden Feb. 78/1 Spaghetti tongs, 85p.
1977 ‘E. McBain’ Long Time no See iii. 32 Knives and forks piled haphazardly..paper napkins, spaghetti tongs, a corkscrew.
b.
spaghetti-like adj.
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1979 K. Bonfiglioli After You with Pistol vi. 25 We parted in a spaghetti-like tangle of insincere matiness.
C2.
spaghetti Bolognese n. spaghetti served with a sauce of which the principal ingredients are beef and tomato.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pasta > [noun] > pasta dishes
ravioli1760
pasta1840
agnolotti1841
lasagne1845
macaroni and cheese1846
macaroni cheese1877
mostaccioli1904
spaghetti Bolognese1906
Tetrazzini1920
cannelloni1937
tortellini1937
manicotti1941
spaghetti alla carbonara1954
spaghetti carbonara1955
carbonara1962
panzerotto1967
spag bol1970
radiatore1986
1906 Christian Advocate 3 May 658/2 (heading) Spaghetti Bolognese.
1947 L. P. De Gouy Gold Cookery Bk. 760 (heading) Spaghetti alla Bolognese.]
1950 E. David Bk. Mediterranean Food 93 If you are serving the classic spaghetti Bolognese..see that it is highly flavoured.
1973 ‘M. Underwood’ Reward for Defector vii. 56 [He] reached out for everything he needed to make himself a plateful of spaghetti bolognese.
spaghetti bowl n. a network of pipelines constructed to carry materials between petrochemical companies on the Gulf Coast of the U.S.; also transferred.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > pipe-line > system or network of
Pluto1945
spaghetti bowl1958
1958 Houston Apr. 16/1 The mighty petrochemical industry today is feeding from an overflowing ‘Spaghetti Bowl’.
1958 Houston Apr. 16/3 Industrial Sales Engineer G. R. Walton of the Houston Pipe Line Company (the man who coined the term ‘Spaghetti Bowl’ about two years ago).
1970 Chem. & Engin. News 26 Oct. 30 Mention ‘the spaghetti bowl’ and most West European petrochemical producers would probably think of the pipeline system in the Gulf Coast of the U.S. rather than the maze being developed in their own back yard.
spaghetti junction n. colloquial a complex junction of roads at different levels; applied spec. to a major interchange on the M6 near Birmingham; also figurative.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] > types of road junction
clover-leaf1933
interchange1944
T-junction1954
Y junction1961
spaghetti1963
box junction1964
box1966
spaghetti junction1971
ring junction1972
gyratory1983
1971 Evening News (Worcester) 15 Nov. 7/4 Worcester will have its own ‘spaghetti junction’ if the big multi-level interchange is ever constructed in the Arboretum.
1978 Listener 5 Jan. 25/4 We pass abruptly from the proprium to the ordinarium—from the winding country road into a great spaghetti junction of criss-cross melodies.
1980 S. Brett Dead Side of Mike xi. 125 He got held up..under the spaghetti junction between the M23 and M25 because of road works.
spaghetti strap n. (also spaghetti shoulder strap) a thin cord-like shoulder strap for a dress or the like.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > shoulder > shoulder strap > types of
bretelle1857
spaghetti strap1972
1972 New Yorker 30 Sept. 81/1 Black cocktail dresses with sparkling spaghetti straps.
1977 Lancashire Life Dec. 104/3 The demure look from Elizabeth Hayes consists of a lace-trimmed polyester satin bedjacket which, when taken off, reveals a sexy nightdress with spaghetti shoulder straps.
1980 Times 12 Feb. 7/5 A natty little camisole top with spaghetti shoulder straps topped with an amazing sort of opened up tube of knitting which seals your arms and then blossoms into a shrug for the back and shoulders. Do not ask me how it is done.
spaghetti tubing n. colloquial tubular insulation for electrical wire.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > transmission of electricity, conduction > wire as conductor > [noun] > insulation for wires
loom1917
spaghetti tubing1922
systoflex1922
spaghetti1960
1922 Science & Invention Mag. May (advt.) (rear cover) Spaghetti Tubing, black or yellow in 2½-ft. lengths..18 cents per length.
spaghetti Western n. a ‘Western’ (western n.2 4) or film set in the U.S. ‘old west’, but made in Italy or by Italians, esp. cheaply.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > western
wild western1864
western1910
horse opera1927
oat opera1937
oater1946
shoot-'em-up1953
spaghetti Western1969
shooter1981
1969 M. Pei Words in Sheep's Clothing (1970) iii. 22 ‘Spaghetti Western’ and ‘Sukiyaki Western’ are terms applied to cheap Westerns produced in Italy and Japan.
1973 J. Susann Once is not Enough i. 34 It started with the flop of Melba's picture... When your kid is busted into pieces, you can't worry about a spaghetti western.
1977 G. Marton Alarum 56 I wanted to see a Spaghetti Western movie.
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