linguini

Examples

• All

• Give me a plate of linguini and clams, white sauce, I'm happy.

  Dinner Rush (2000)

• Chloe gives me a puzzled look, then starts to wolf down linguini and shrimp like she hasn't eaten in a week.

  Fiction book (1999)

• I always get the linguini.

  Way of the Wicked (2014)

• I'll have the linguini with clams.

  The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)

• Have you ever had Mia's shrimp scampi with the linguini?

  The Best Man (1999)

• "I'll have the linguini with pesto and the insalata mista."

  Fiction book (1999)

• We talked a lot about how to deal with raccoons, rabbits, and other garden interlopers, laughed, and ate too much linguini.

  Fiction book (1993)

• That night, the admiral's wife served linguini with white clam sauce, and the ambassador was so taken with it that he insisted on bringing the recipe back to his home planet. "I heard he wanted to bring Mrs. Manelli back as well," said Ben Zoma.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Ira and Sidney had argued over linguini for hours, the red and white checkered tablecloth between them flapping in the breeze that blew off the Hudson River, down 35th Street, and beneath the small table they shared outside Luigi's Fine Italian Eatery.

  Blog text (24)

• I'll have the linguini with clams.

Synonyms

P

pasta

vslinguini

255 1.0

Food made from wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, shaped into pieces and boiled, often served with sauce

is one specific long narrow flat form of that general food

L

linguine

vslinguini

8 2.8

A long, flat pasta like thin ribbons used in Italian cooking

is the same shape but differs only in written form

T

tagliarini

vslinguini

8.1

A long flat Italian pasta thinner than tagliatelle

is equally long and flat but not described as especially thin

How Thin

capellini

3 4.1

vermicelli

3 5.5

spaghettini

5.4

spaghetti

153 1.0

linguini

• US

13 3.1

Surface Forms

Etymology