Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A baked pie of Italian origin consisting of a shallow breadlike crust covered with toppings such as seasoned tomato sauce, cheese, or sausage.
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- noun uncountable A
baked Italian dish of a thinly rolledbread doughcrust typicallytopped before baking withtomato sauce ,cheese , and other ingredients such asmeat ,vegetables orfruit - noun countable A single
instance of this dish
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was then, that the pizza man went on to open the box completely to reveal the Shakespearean tragi-comedy of it all the pizza velcro-warmer had done such a phenomenal job at keeping the pizza hot, that all the cheese had crumbled and slid to one entire corner of the pizza
ugotsoul Diary Entry ugotsoul 2002
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It was only after consuming one of these hearty slices that I finally understood the term "pizza pie."
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I have been digging into pizza from a very early age, long before pizza chains descended on Indian cities, long before I moved to graduate school in NYC, where pizza is not just food, it is a food group.
Archive 2007-09-01 Nupur 2007
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The meeting between the word pizza and a flat bread or focaccia smeared with tomato sauce lay a long way in the future.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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Next time I'll try what they call the pizza della nonna -- grandma's pizza -- which is with San Marzano tomatoes, grated pecorino and parmigiano, olive oil -- add anchovies and roasted garlic.
One For The Table: Capizzi One For The Table 2011
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Next time I'll try what they call the pizza della nonna -- grandma's pizza -- which is with San Marzano tomatoes, grated pecorino and parmigiano, olive oil -- add anchovies and roasted garlic.
One For The Table: Capizzi One For The Table 2011
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Oddly, their pizza is the most similar to what I encounter overseas.
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Next time I'll try what they call the pizza della nonna -- grandma's pizza -- which is with San Marzano tomatoes, grated pecorino and parmigiano, olive oil -- add anchovies and roasted garlic.
One For The Table: Capizzi One For The Table 2011
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I live in chicago and I just thought it was funny how people from outside of chicago thinks chicago pizza is so so while people from chicago think other pizza is awful.
Homecoming grrm 2010
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Next time I'll try what they call the pizza della nonna -- grandma's pizza -- which is with San Marzano tomatoes, grated pecorino and parmigiano, olive oil -- add anchovies and roasted garlic.
One For The Table: Capizzi One For The Table 2011
bilby commented on the word pizza
My local pizza restaurant is offering, among others, the following varieties: Temptation, Aussie, Trash Can, A Lee, The Bomb, Mafioso and Tiger Feast. If they're all too exotic there's always that great Italian fallback, Capricossia.
January 20, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word pizza
Misspelling of capricciosa?
January 20, 2009
bilby commented on the word pizza
:->
January 20, 2009
benny4words commented on the word pizza
Apparently derived from the medievil greek noun,"pitta" meaning cake/pie
February 5, 2009
lea commented on the word pizza
'Yeast pillow
sailing
through the green
oregano air, floats
down into the bubbling
rumors of tomatoes,
the gossip
of basil and bay leaves,
stretches at the red
aromatic massage,
dreams in layers
of mozzarella, the black
oval dozings of olives
humming in the sun,
dough that naps
in the glow
of laughter,
round appetite,
cicular carpet
shrugging
at knives and forks,
tattles
in many tongues,
international traveler
riding red pepper cloud-currents,
cruising the seas,
rising
to grins
that pull the melted
cheese, queso, fromage, kaas, ser, keshi, ocha,
queijo, käse, panir, nailao, queixo,
formatge, brinzeu, cascaval, bú, formagio
from country to country,
wrapping around us and
our gold floating globe.
"Ode to Pizza" by Pat Mora.
March 6, 2009
frogapplause commented on the word pizza
The future of pizza? I'm not ready to try this!
June 3, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word pizza
The future of pizza is pizzarà.
June 3, 2009
reesetee commented on the word pizza
Heehee!
June 3, 2009
bilby commented on the word pizza
Wandering frog of the rolling valleys, we had a discussion going a few weeks ago on cone pizza.
June 4, 2009
kimberly commented on the word pizza
Hello essays )))
February 17, 2010
bilby commented on the word pizza
SPAM
February 17, 2010
oroboros commented on the word pizza
A pizza with radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi*z*z*a --via Reddit.com
June 27, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word pizza
Still, The state of Kansas is flatter than a pancake.
June 27, 2010
tankhughes commented on the word pizza
At the wonderful lemur exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo (https://www.sfzoo.org/lipman-family-lemur-forest/), they have little treehouses with heat lamps inside them so the lil lemurs can stay warm on chilly coastal days. We saw lemurs napping right under the heat lamps, looking like a convenience store slices of pizza. So from that day, one specific white and black ruffed lemur was named Pizza, who we invited to come home with us (but politely declined). And also now all lemurs are known as pizza.
November 14, 2023