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Pizza vs Pizze - What's the difference?

pizza | pizze |

As nouns the difference between pizza and pizze

is that pizza is a baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit while pizze is plural of lang=en.

pizza

English

Alternative forms

(wikipedia pizza) * pitza (South African English)

Noun

  • (uncountable) A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread dough crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese and other ingredients such as meat, vegetables or fruit
    • a slice of pizza
    a pizza pie
    Want to go out for pizza tonight?
  • (countable) A single instance of this dish
    • He ate a whole pizza !
    Should we cook a frozen pizza for dinner?

    Usage notes

    * In phrases like (term) and (term), (term) refers to the toppings.

    Synonyms

    * pizza pie * pie

    Derived terms

    * pizza bone * pizza cutter * pizza face * pizza man * pizza parlor * pizza puff * pizza wheel * pizzeria * sheet pizza

    pizze

    English

    Noun

    (head) (p)
  • (rare)
  • * 1938 : Giuseppe Orioli, Adventures of a Bookseller , p321
  • *:…they manufacture the detestable tarts called pizze , very popular in this part of the world.
  • * 1957 : Armando T. Perretta, Take a Number , p82
    • Twice a week his mother baked bread, and twice a week there were pizze fritte for breakfast instead of cocoa and stale bread.
  • * 1973 : Maria-Antonietta Macciocchi et alii & Partito Comunista Italiano, Letters from Inside the Italian Communist Party to Louis Althusser , p121
    • The city seemed like one gigantic fry-shop, with ‘zeppole’, ‘pizze’ and ‘calzoni’ sizzling on every street-corner.
  • * 1999 : Elizabeth David, Italian Food , p115
    • The variety of pizze'' is immense. The true Roman ''pizza , for instance, is made with onions and oil, no tomato.
  • * 2000 : Matthew Evans, Italy: World Food , p2
    • The most exquisite pizze are cooked in a forno a legna (woodfired oven).
  • * 2004 : Anna Del Conte, The Classic Food of Northern Italy , p203
    • Umbria is rich in paste, pizze , savoury torte , minestre and polenta dishes.
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