bucatini
/ˌbuːkəˈtiːni/
bucatini noun: a thicker form of spaghetti with a hole running through it.
Noun
bucatini (uncountable)
- A thicker form of spaghetti with a hole running through it.
- You could make this with spaghetti or linguine or other types of long skinny pasta, but bucatini are what's used in Rome.2012, Nancy Harmon Jenkins, The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 197
- Synonyms:
- perciatelli
Synonyms of bucatini
Origin of bucatini
From Italian bucatini, diminutive of buco (“hole”).
Words that rhyme with bucatini
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- queenie
- queeny
- sheeny
- wahine
- weeny
- zucchini
- Adiabene
- Apamene
- arancini
- Atropatene
- bandikini
- bandini
- bandkini
- beany
- blackberrytini
- blueberrytini
- broccolini
- burkini
- burqini
- camikini
- capellini
- caulini
- cheekini
- chocolatini
- chocotini
- cinnamontini
- coffeetini
- Commagene
- crostini
- damascene
- Datterini
- Emesene
- facekini
- fatkini
- Feeney
- fettuccine
- gingertini
- Gini
- Gogarene
- grissini
- halterini
- halterkini
- Lamborghini
- Laodicene
- lemon drop martini
- limetini
- linguine
- mankini
Questions about bucatini
- What does bucatini mean?
- Bucatini means a thicker form of spaghetti with a hole running through it.
- What part of speech is bucatini?
- Bucatini is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bucatini?
- Bucatini is pronounced /ˌbuːkəˈtiːni/.
Words near bucatini in the dictionary
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