anchovy dressing

4.1

A salad sauce that mixes oil and vinegar with mashed anchovies to make it salty

noun
/ˈænʧoʊvi ˈdrɛsɪŋ/

: aderezo de anchoveta

The Caesar salad was made from scratch, including a homemade anchovy dressing.

Examples

I love anchovy dressing on my salads.
Many people enjoy the salty, savory taste of anchovy dressing on their greens.
She tossed the salad with a generous amount of anchovy dressing for extra flavor.
Can you pass the anchovy dressing?
For a delicious flavor, drizzle the salad with anchovy dressing before serving.
The chef recommended a homemade anchovy dressing to enhance the salad's taste.
I added anchovy dressing to my greens for a savory, umami kick.

Synonyms

half-and-half dressing

vsanchovy dressing

5.8

A salad dressing made from equal parts mayonnaise and vinaigrette with garlic and cheese

focuses on vinaigrette blended with mashed fish for a thin salty umami dressing

How Fishy

anchovy paste

1 3.4

anchovy dressing

4.1

anchovy butter

4.5

vinaigrette

28 3.3

Surface Forms

anchovy dressing singular

anchovy dressings plural

Morphology

anchovy + dressing

The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'anchovy' (a salty preserved fish used for seasoning) with 'dressing' (a sauce for salads): a sauce made using anchovies. This noun+noun composition is a transparent descriptive pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Anchovy dressing comes from the simple idea of adding mashed anchovy to a salad dressing, so the sauce becomes very 'salty' and 'savory'. So, the name means a salad dressing made with anchovies to give strong flavor.