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polpettine

polpettine noun: small Italian meatballs.

Noun

polpettine pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Small Italian meatballs.
    • Upstarts like the snack menu, with its little offerings of polpettine and deviled eggs, are encroaching from the flank.2007 December 5, Kim Severson, “Is the Entree Heading for Extinction?”, in New York Times

Origin of polpettine

Italian

Questions about polpettine

What does polpettine mean?
Polpettine means small Italian meatballs.
What part of speech is polpettine?
Polpettine is a noun.

Words near polpettine in the dictionary

  1. poloxamines
  2. poloxin
  3. Poloyagan
  4. polpala
  5. Polperro
  6. polpettine
  7. Polpotism
  8. polron
  9. polrons
  10. polrumptious
  11. pols

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