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linguinilike en · ADJ

Etymology

From linguini + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling linguine.
   • Along with hummus, baba ghanouj, and stuffed grape leaves made by Ms. Dabas, it sells barbecued spare ribs, a linguinilike string cheese called halabi, and a creamy cheesecake called knaffe that could rival the old Lindy’s cheesecake in its heyday. 2009 May 15, Joseph Berger, “Changing Tastes, From Lingonberry to Baba Ghanouj”, in The New York Times:
   • Likewise for his treatment of linguinilike rice noodles sauteed with whole shrimp, pork, egg, chiles, green onions, and bean sprouts. 1987 July, Texas Monthly, page 36:
   • What it always is, however, is repulsive almost beyond words, a sickening, monstrously contorted afterbirth of a blob, complete with linguinilike prying tentacles, which it uses to reproduce itself. 1982, California, volume 7, numbers 5–8, page 99:

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