pasghetti

English

Alternative forms

• pusghetti, pisketti, psketti, p'sketti, s'ghetti, sketti

Etymology

A childish pronunciation of spaghetti, with metathesis to avoid the consonant cluster /sp/.

Noun

pasghetti (countable and uncountable, plural pasghettis)

1. (childish, nonstandard) spaghetti
   • 1984, Romeo Muller, Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody, Troll Communications Llc, page 14:

     "I love pasghetti!" Terry and Nobody sat by the large kitchen window [...]

   • 1988, Meanjin, volume 47, The University of Melbourne, page 332:

     'Will you make pasghetti?' / 'Yes, I will.'

   • 1999, Sharon Bryan, “Lunch with Girl Scouts”, in Real things: an anthology of popular culture in American poetry, Indiana University Press, page 258:

     My hostess and I eat quiche, the girls spaghetti. Pasghetti. They giggle.

   • 1993, Moyra Tarling, Just a Memory Away, Harlequin Books, page 76:

     "You know pasghetti's my favorite." Sara flashed Nick a smile as she leaned toward the pumpkin, the felt pen held tightly in her hand.

   • 2002, Vida Adamoli, La bella vita, Summersdale, page 31:

     When I finished she took her thumb out of her mouth and informed me that her name was Claudia and she liked 'pasghetti'.

   • 2006, Katherine Scraper, Vicki Scraper, Show Me: Graphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension Across the Curriculum, Good Year Books, page 174:

     "Pasghetti for supper is good news," said Frankie, holding out his plate.

   • 2019, @MaxTheMoluccan, Twitter‎:

     While I was waiting for my hooman to cook pasghettis, I had a snack on some of the crunchy pasta sticks. Great appetizer!

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