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Marzetti

Marzetti is the clipping of Johnny Marzetti.

Meaning of Johnny Marzetti

Noun

Johnny Marzetti (uncountable)

  1. An American Midwestern pasta dish made with noodles, cheese, ground beef or Italian sausage, and a tomato sauce that may include aromatic vegetables and mushrooms.
    • At home you can make Johnny Marzetti with canned soup, noodles, and ground beef.2000, Allan A. Metcalf, How We Talk: American Regional English Today, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 97
  2. Synonym of American chop suey.

Phrases with Marzetti

Questions about Marzetti

What is Marzetti the clipping of?
Marzetti is the clipping of Johnny Marzetti.

Words near Marzetti in the dictionary

  1. marzbans
  2. Marzec
  3. Marzecs
  4. marzer
  5. marzes
  6. Marzetti
  7. marzipan
  8. marzipan layer
  9. marzipan layers
  10. marzipan set
  11. marzipanned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Marzetti (page history and authors); Johnny Marzetti (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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