linguine
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2.8
- noun
- /lɪŋˈɡiːni/
:
linguini
- I made linguine with clam sauce and Mark said, "It's the best I've ever eaten."
- linguine with clams
- linguine with sauce
- cook linguine
Not with the overcooked linguine and fried chicken on top.
- Not with the overcooked linguine and fried chicken on top.
- Mom's making clams, oreganata and linguine for the seven fishes for Christmas.
- I love the Herbie meatballs and linguine.
- The idea that clams travel the only place clams are going is onto a bed of linguine.
- Ultimate chicken, bacon, linguine or coconut and lentil soup.
Examples
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Can't wait till you try the linguine.
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The lady will have the linguine in a white clam sauce, and a Coke with no ice.
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So you take some linguine and it's about a foot long.
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Um, we'll each have the chicken piccata over linguine, please.
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I'll have the linguine with clam sauce, please, and a caprese salad to start.
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Gopal plied Mrs. Shaw with wine as they ate the linguine he had cooked.
Fiction book (1997) -
Mom's making clams, oreganata and linguine for the seven fishes for Christmas.
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The salmon linguine was tasty, and Huxley Anne, who was edging toward roly-poliness, got seriously involved with it.
Fiction book (1990) -
They'd sat tucked in a back booth, twirling their forks in plates of linguine, and listening to a group of old Italian men playing bocce ball in the alley outside.
Fiction book (1998) -
I would like a plate of linguine with creamy Alfredo sauce for dinner.
Synonyms
255
1.0
Food made from wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, shaped into pieces and boiled, often served with sauce
116
1.0
A long thin strip of pasta cooked in hot water
13
3.1
Long, narrow, flat pasta shaped like thin ribbons
9
3.2
A flat, thick pasta in wide strips often served with sauce
3
7.0
Long flat strips of pasta usually served with a sauce
A long flat Italian pasta thinner than tagliatelle
How Wide
1
7.5
9
3.2
3
7.0
8
2.8
153
1.0
3
4.1
Surface Forms
Etymology
Linguine comes from Italian and originally meant 'little tongues', from lingua 'tongue' plus the small ending -ine. The pasta got this name because its long, flat strips look like small tongues, and you can see the same root in language, which also comes from a word for 'tongue'.