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- noun US
whelk
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Examples
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Pizzarelli and Wilkins will reunite at the restaurant Bella Luna , where scintillating guitar is on the menu next to scungilli.
Teeming Trumpets, Jam Sessions Will Friedwald 2011
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Her's was more May I take your coat? and marinating scungilli.
How Maria Bartiromo May Become the Best Teacher You've Ever Had 2010
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Her's was more May I take your coat? and marinating scungilli.
Michael Martin: How Maria Bartiromo May Become the Best Teacher You've Ever Had 2010
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I heard that the fossil shark actually died of scungilli.
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Since this was an ink and pen cartoon, might scungilli be more approriate?
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Joey Gallo, the "Ubazze", decided at the spur of the moment to satisfy his craving for scungilli at a little family restaurant on Mulberry St, not knowing it was owned by Matty "The Horse", of the rival Colombo family.
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And later we'd made our own Christmases, Bobby and Robert and I. Christmas Eve dinner atAnn Benedetto's, scungilli and calamari and baccala, the walk home through a cold Brooklyn night along streets bright as day with litup lawn reindeer and sleighs and Mr. Costanza's house, that got in the Daily News every year because it took $500 worth of Con Ed juice to light it for a week.
Black and Blue Quindlen, Anna 1998
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"He was bringing in food for us, cold cuts, shrimp, scungilli," he replied.
NYT > Home Page By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM 2011
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This year, to celebrate San Gennaro, patron saint of Naples, Roe is doing a menu inspired by the Mulberry Street fare: sausage and peppers, bracciole, fried shrimp, scungilli and zeppole made to order.
unknown title 2009
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I happen to like fish, and the cartoon would have been even funnier if he’d agreed to take scungilli off the menu.
mollusque commented on the word scungilli
Plural of scungille, a conch or whelk used in Italian cooking.
"He tended each seashell on his submarine scungille farm, tender and impartial, moving awkwardly about his staked preserve on the harbor bed..."
--Thomas Pynchon, 1999, V
November 8, 2007
reesetee commented on the word scungilli
An Italian-American corruption of the Neapolitan word sconciglio. :-)
November 8, 2007
yarb commented on the word scungilli
I've spent approximately 30% of my time over the last three days thinking about this word, along with tofurkey.
January 15, 2008
reesetee commented on the word scungilli
Um...why? Hungry?
January 15, 2008