Linguica
[ling-gwee-suh; Portuguese lin-gwee-sah, -suh]
noun
1.
a highly spiced Portuguese garlic sausage.
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[ling-gwuh-fawrm] adjective 1. having the shape of a ; tongue-shaped. /ˈlɪŋɡwɪˌfɔːm/ adjective 1. shaped like a tongue linguiform lin·gui·form (lĭng’gwə-fôrm’) adj. Tongue-shaped.
- Linguine
[ling-gwee-nee] noun, Italian Cookery. 1. a type of pasta in long, slender, flat strips. /lɪŋˈɡwiːnɪ/ noun 1. a kind of pasta in the shape of thin flat strands n. 1948, from Italian linguine, plural of linguina “little tongue,” diminutive of lingua “tongue,” from Latin lingua “tongue” (see lingual).
- Linguini
[ling-gwee-nee] noun, Italian Cookery. 1. a type of pasta in long, slender, flat strips. /lɪŋˈɡwiːnɪ/ noun 1. a kind of pasta in the shape of thin flat strands n. 1948, from Italian linguine, plural of linguina “little tongue,” diminutive of lingua “tongue,” from Latin lingua “tongue” (see lingual).
- Linguist
[ling-gwist] noun 1. a specialist in . 2. a person who is skilled in several languages; polyglot. /ˈlɪŋɡwɪst/ noun 1. a person who has the capacity to learn and speak foreign languages 2. a person who studies linguistics 3. (W African) especially (Ghanaian) the spokesman for a chief n. 1580s, “a master of language, one […]
- Linguistic
[ling-gwis-tik] adjective 1. of or belonging to language: linguistic change. 2. of or relating to . /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/ adjective 1. of or relating to language 2. of or relating to linguistics adj. 1856, from French linguistique (1833); see linguist + -ic. The use of linguistic to mean “of or pertaining to language or languages” is “hardly […]