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puttanesca.

puttanesca sauce

10 characters4 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

noun/put.taˈnes.ka/

  1. puttanesca sauce

    feminine

  2. spaghetti puttanesca

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From puttanesco (“whorish”). Sometimes claimed to have been invented in a whorehouse, or that the name is from puttanata (“stupidity”), according to an account where Sandro Petti is identified as the inventor of the sauce.

adj/put.taˈnes.ka/

  1. feminine singular of puttanesco (“whorish, sluttish”)

    feminine · form-of · singular
Where this word comes from

From puttanesco (“whorish”). Sometimes claimed to have been invented in a whorehouse, or that the name is from puttanata (“stupidity”), according to an account where Sandro Petti is identified as the inventor of the sauce.

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