octopus
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- noun
- /ˈɑktəpəs/
:
pulpo
- In Italy, you see octopus carpaccio quite often in fine-dining restaurants!
- grilled octopus
- octopus salad
- marinated octopus
I want to eat the octopus at Illinois Kojini.
- I want to eat the octopus at Illinois Kojini.
- We got red snapper, some prawns, octopus, skirt steak, swordfish.
- I had some octopus crisps, some choppa chop chocolate.
- I like them more about enjoying octopus at a fancier restaurant.
- When octopuses are chopped up and minced and put in a pie, it's an octopi.
- So today we are going to be making a pie, and not just any pie, it's an octopus pie that I like to call octopi.
- It's like, I tell you what, Let's get airplay to the grilled octopus and maybe a little side plate of Bill Barr's moral compass.
Examples
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You eat those on the street in Osaka, and they tend to be greasy and stuffed with octopus.
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I want to try the grilled octopus at my favorite seafood restaurant.
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Please help yourself to some more octopus.
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I am hungry for octopus salad.
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I wonder what fried octopus tastes like.
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I love shellfish and I love octopus.
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I ate an octopus pancake.
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With spicy octopus topped with spicy tuna tartare and unagi sauce, this roll was one of the best I've had in a really long time.
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I gorge on flash-fried whole shrimp and sautéed octopus with snow peas.
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On the menu, they serve a delicious octopus salad with fresh vegetables.
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Etymology
The word octopus for the food comes from the same Greek parts oct- 'eight' and -pus 'foot', because the dish is the tentacles of the animal. So when you order octopus, you are eating parts of the 'eight-footed' sea creature.