Meaning & use
scungili
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The meat of a large sea snail, especially conch, prepared as food in Italian-American cuisine.
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The restaurant's scungili salad is dressed simply with lemon, garlic, and olive oil.
Her grandmother always served scungili on Christmas Eve as part of the Feast of the Seven Fishes.
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Adapted from Neapolitan dialect into Italian-American English; spellings vary, with scungilli also common.
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