Citations:spaghetto

English citations of spaghetto

Noun: "(rare) a single strand of spaghetti"

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• 1999, Sam Orbaum, "On a collision course with greed", The Jerusalem Post, 30 August 1999:

  You can do more damage with an uncooked spaghetto.

• 2000, Henry Alford, Big Kiss: One Actor's Desperate Attempt to Claw His Way to the Middle, Broadway Books (2001), →ISBN, 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.

• 2002, Clive Anderson, "Why You 'Independent on Sunday' Readers Are Driving Me Up the Wall", The Independent, 30 June 2002:

  And while I am addressing the middle classes, can we also agree that a single bit of graffiti is best referred to as "a single piece of graffiti", and not "a graffito". I first saw this rather pretentious usage when I was in an Italian restaurant and nearly choked on 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.

• 2006, Alessia Urbani Vaughan, Italian Summer, iUniverse (2006), →ISBN, page 139:

  Tobia tested my al dente skills but before I could provide a verdict, he jokingly flung a spaghetto at the wall. We laughed as the worm-like pasta painfully stuck, before falling to the floor.

• 2007, Sylvie Nicolas, Tomato Sauce Love: Short Fiction (translated from the French by Mara Bertelsen), Buschek Books (2007), →ISBN, page 31:

  There's one spaghetto left on his plate and a lot of meat around it.

• 2009, Oretta Zanini De Vita, Encyclopedia of Pasta, University of California Press (2009), →ISBN, page 49:

  Some scholars, citing Platina, maintain that the long maccherone was first made and then perforated through its entire length, an operation that, performed on a spaghetto as thin as a straw, we consider impossible even for expert hands.

• 2009, John Amis, "Hänsel Und Gretel 2nd Cast", Musical Opinion, 1 January 2009:

  Robin Ticciati is the youngest conductor to do this at Salzburg and then at La Scala, tousle-haired and as thin as a spaghetto (if there is such a singular thing).

• 2010, Rita Golden Gelman, Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World, Three Rivers Press (2010), →ISBN, 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.