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Spaghetto vs Spaghetti - What's the difference?

spaghetto | spaghetti |

Spaghetti is a alternative form of spaghetto.



As nouns the difference between spaghetto and spaghetti

is that spaghetto is a single strand of spaghetti while spaghetti is a type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.

spaghetto

English

Noun

(spaghetti)
  • (rare, prescriptive) A single strand of spaghetti.
  • * 2000 , Henry Alford, Big Kiss: One Actor's Desperate Attempt to Claw His Way to the Middle , Broadway Books (2001), ISBN 9780767907415, page 65:
  • My first class consisted of twenty-six dancers; at least a third of these appeared to be tiny Asian women, each with a waist the approximate width of a spaghetto .
  • * 2004 , D. L. Stewart, "Cyclone Salad Set To Hit School Cafeterias", Dayton Daily News , 7 September 2004:
  • With his thumb and forefinger he lifted one spaghetto at a time and dunked it into the bowl of sauce before eating it.
  • * 2010 , Rita Golden Gelman, Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World , Three Rivers Press (2010), ISBN 9780307588029, page 289:
  • Not once was I allowed to help make dinner, slice a tomato, boil a spaghetto (one piece of spaghetti), or wash a dish.
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    spaghetti

    Noun

    (-)
  • A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
  • A dish that has spaghetti as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
  • Informally, any type of pasta.
  • Electrical insulating tubing.
  • Anything tangled or confusing.
  • A short form of spaghetti code .
  • Usage notes

    * An individual strand is called a piece of spaghetti'' or a ''strand of spaghetti'', or rarely ''spaghetto , derived from the Italian form. * Often used with another noun to convey a spaghetti-like attribute, such as thinness (spaghetti strap'', ''spaghetti stripes''), Italian (''spaghetti western''), flexibility (''spaghetti limbs''), or intertwining strands (''spaghetti code'', ''spaghetti junction'', ''spaghetti grid )

    Derived terms

    * Flying Spaghetti Monster * spaghetti bolognese * spaghetti code * spaghettification * spaghetti junction * spaghetti strap * spaghetti western * sketti, pasghetti

    See also

    * noodle * pasta * spag

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