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spaghettery

spaghettery noun: a restaurant that sells spaghetti.

Noun

spaghettery (plural spaghetteries)

  1. A restaurant that sells spaghetti.
    • In place of the rotisseries, spaghetteries, cafeterias, coffee potteries and what-nottaries that now cater to the inner man, the oyster house was the great middle-class refectory.1925, Henry Collins Brown, Valentine’s Manual of Old New York, page 81
    • We have met up with cats in Greek coffee houses, Negro cellar dives of the Hill, spaghetteries and the improvised cafes of Grant street’s “Little Hungary.”1929 April 5, Charles F. Danver, “Pittsburghesque”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 2, number 212, page 10

Examples of spaghettery in a sentence

  • An east-end spaghettery is still patching the scars from a New Year’s Eve riot that lasted two hours.1957 January 5, The Sunday Sun, volume LXXI, number 78, Vancouver, B.C., page 21:
  • “[O]n my return, which may be expired [sic] within 3 or 4 or 5 or six months, we will hie us to a spaghettery and try our respective linguistic abilities upon the chianti vender”2006, Ernest Hemingway, quotee, edited by Rena Sanderson, Hemingway’s Italy: New Perspectives, Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN...

Forms of spaghettery

pluralspaghetteries

Origin of spaghettery

From spaghetti + -ery.

Questions about spaghettery

What does spaghettery mean?
Spaghettery means a restaurant that sells spaghetti.
How do you use spaghettery in a sentence?
An east-end spaghettery is still patching the scars from a New Year’s Eve riot that lasted two hours.
What part of speech is spaghettery?
Spaghettery is a noun.
What is the plural of spaghettery?
The plural of spaghettery is spaghetteries.

Words near spaghettery in the dictionary

  1. spag bol
  2. spag bols
  3. spagbol
  4. spageric
  5. spaghetteries
  6. spaghettery
  7. spaghetti
  8. spaghetti and meatballs
  9. spaghetti bender
  10. spaghetti benders
  11. spaghetti bolognaise

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