tuna salad
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- noun
:
ensalada de atún
- He made a quick tuna salad with mayonnaise and chopped onions.
- tuna salad sandwich
- 1 cup of tuna salad
- make tuna salad
This is a tuna salad sandwich with fruit punch.
- This is a tuna salad sandwich with fruit punch.
- Oh my God, you gotta get Whole Foods tuna salad.
- So I'll spend that time eating my lunch, and usually I will get tuna salad with no bread or egg salad.
Examples
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I had a café au lait and a tuna salad.
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Last night she'd had soup and whole-wheat toast; the night before that, tuna salad.
Fiction book (1995) -
Can I have the tuna salad, please?
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Do you eat tuna salad?
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Do you have any tuna salad?
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No, tuna salad, not chicken salad.
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Would you like me to fix you a tuna salad sandwich?
Fiction book (1998) -
Tuna salad on whole wheat.
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I have a nice lunch all fixed for you, consomme and tuna salad just the way you like it.
Fiction book (1992) -
Then I went out to the kitchen, where Mom and Opal were mixing tuna salad.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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A cold dish of small pieces of vegetables often served with a dressing
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A salad made from canned tuna mixed with mayonnaise and chopped vegetables like celery or onion
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Morphology
The meaning 'a salad made with tuna' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'tuna' (the fish) with 'salad' (a mixed cold dish), so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE. The noun+noun ingredient construction is cross-linguistically common (e.g., 'chicken salad', 'egg salad'), and minor variation in specific ingredients or dressing does not reduce its compositional transparency.
Etymology
Tuna salad comes from the simple idea of mixing canned tuna with salad ingredients like mayonnaise, celery, and onion. That's why the name means a salad made mainly from tuna.