Category / Italian language – and cuisine

by EditorM

2. infected with measles, as an animal or its flesh.

There are some who object to shrimp scampi on the grounds that it is somewhat a translated-redundancy; based on

scampi

/ ˈskæm pi, ˈskɑm- /

noun,plural scam·pi.Italian Cooking.

  1. a large shrimp or prawn.

but then there is 2. a dish of shrimp or prawns grilled or sautéed in oil or butter and garlic, which is what we want shrimp scampi to mean.