different between farting vs spaghetti

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??t??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??t??/

Verb

farting

1. present participle of fart

Noun

farting (plural fartings)

1. The act of one who farts; a sound like a fart.
   • 1989, William H. MacLeish, The Gulf Stream

     Noise grew everywhere — radios, monstrous tape decks, the fartings of untuned engines.

Translations

Anagrams

• ingraft, rafting

English

Etymology

From Italian spaghetti pl.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sp?g?t??, IPA^(key): /sp????ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): [sp?????i]
• Rhymes: -?ti

Noun

spaghetti (usually uncountable, plural spaghettis)

1. A type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.
2. A dish that has spaghetti as a main part of it, such as spaghetti bolognese.
3. (informal) Any type of pasta.
4. (informal) Electrical insulating tubing.
5. (informal) Anything tangled or confusing.
6. (countable) A spaghetti western.
7. (informal, programming) 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), Italianness (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 (childish, nonstandard)

Related terms

• spaghettini
• spaghettoni

Translations

Verb

spaghetti (third-person singular simple present spaghettis, present participle spaghettiing, simple past and past participle spaghettied)

1. (intransitive) To become, or appear to become longer and thinner.
   • 2006, Richard E. Grant, The Wah-Wah Diaries: The Making of a Film - Page 11

     "Call it what you will, but as soon as you think you've got your dish ready to serve, it spaghettis all over the place and you have to clean up the mess."

   The cables spaghettied onto the shoulder of the technician.

2. (transitive) To stretch to become longer and thinner.

   He spaghettied the referee when he landed on him.

See also

• noodle
• pasta
• spag

Anagrams

• pasghetti

French

Etymology

From Italian spaghetti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa.?e.ti/

Noun

spaghetti m (plural spaghettis)

1. (usually in the plural) spaghetti
2. strand of spaghetti

Further reading

• “spaghetti” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Plural of spaghetto, diminutive of spago (“cord, string”), from Latin spacus (“string”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa??etti/, [spä??et??i]
• Hyphenation: spa?ghét?ti

Noun

spaghetti m pl

1. plural of spaghetto
2. a dish of spaghetti
3. fine strings

Related terms

• spaghettata
• spaghetteria
• spaghettini

Polish

Etymology

From Italian spaghetti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa???t.ti/

Noun

spaghetti n (indeclinable)

1. spaghetti

Further reading

• spaghetti in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• spaghetti in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

spaghetti m (plural spaghettis)

1. Alternative form of espaguete