(thing) by Percepied Sun Nov 05 2000 at 13:46:16

A kind of pasta made from small, straight tubes. Similar to macaroni but smaller and always straight. Ditalini literally means "small thimbles" in Italian.

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(thing) by alien_life_form Wed Jun 20 2001 at 10:17:54
Of course in Italian slang, "ditalini" is the plural of "ditalino", meaning "female masturbatory act".

I would safely bet this second usage vastly outnumbers the pasta one.

The reason for these seemingly wildly different meanings is to be found in the stem word "dito" == finger. Hence "ditale" == thimble and "ditalino"=small thimble. I don't think I have to explain further on the second meaning...

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