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puttanesca

Syllables: put·ta·nes·caUK/ˌpʊtəˈnɛskə/US/ˌputəˈnɛskə/

puttanesca noun: a cooking sauce made from tomato flavoured with garlic, anchovies, capers and olives, created in Naples.

puttanesca: a cooking sauce made from tomato flavoured with garlic, anchovies, capers and olives, created in...
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Noun

puttanesca (usually uncountable, plural puttanescas)

  1. (usually) A cooking sauce made from tomato flavoured with garlic, anchovies, capers and olives, created in Naples.

Adjective

puttanesca (not comparable)

  1. (postpositional, usually) Served with puttanesca sauce.
    • spaghetti puttanesca

Forms of puttanesca

pluralputtanescas

Origin of puttanesca

Borrowed from Italian puttanesca (feminine of puttanesco, literally “whorish, sluttish”), from puttana (“whore”).

Words that rhyme with puttanesca

Questions about puttanesca

What does puttanesca mean?
Puttanesca means a cooking sauce made from tomato flavoured with garlic, anchovies, capers and olives, created in Naples.
What part of speech is puttanesca?
Puttanesca can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce puttanesca?
Puttanesca is pronounced /ˌpʊtəˈnɛskə/ (UK).
What is the plural of puttanesca?
The plural of puttanesca is puttanescas.

Words near puttanesca in the dictionary

  1. Putta Bucca
  2. puttable
  3. puttables
  4. puttage
  5. Puttalam
  6. puttanesca
  7. puttanescas
  8. Puttaswamy
  9. putted
  10. putted from the rough
  11. puttedst

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