HOW TO PRONOUNCE
spaghetti
/spəˈɡɛti/
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spuh-GET-ee: gh has a hard g sound.
Stress GET, using the short e of “bed.” Keep sp together at the beginning, with no vowel inserted between s and p.
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“A pot of spaghetti was boiling on the stove.”
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noun
- A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
- A dish that has spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
- Ellipsis of spaghetti western (“a motion picture depicting a story of cowboys and desperadoes set in the American Old West, but produced by an Italian-based company and filmed in Europe, notably in Italy”).
More meanings (14)
noun
- (informal) Something physically resembling spaghetti (noun 1 sense 1) in appearance or consistency, or in being tangled.
- (informal) Electrical insulating tubing or electrical wiring.
- (informal) Roads forming a complex junction, especially one with multiple levels on a motorway.
- (informal) Disorderly strands of filament, caused by an error during the printing process.
- (figuratively, informal) Something confusing or intricate.
- (derogatory, informal) An Italian person.
- (derogatory, figuratively, informal) Ellipsis of spaghetti code (“unstructured or poorly structured program source code, especially code with many GOTO statements or their equivalent”).
- (rare) plural of spaghetto
verb
- (humorous, informal) To serve (someone) spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
- (informal) To cause (someone or something) to become, or appear to become, longer and thinner; to stretch.
- (informal) To cause (something) to become tangled.
- (humorous, informal) To eat spaghetti (noun noun 1 sense 1).
- (informal) To become, or appear to become, longer and thinner.
- (informal) To become tangled.
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IPA pronunciation
/spəˈɡɛti/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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This dish may be made with vermicelli, spaghetti, or any other Italian paste.
Dirk Stroeve flattered himself on his skill in cooking Italian dishes, and I confess that his spaghetti were very much better than his pictures.
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These include Buttercup, Hubbard, Delicious, Sweet Meat, Delicata, Spaghetti, and Acorn.