blue cheese dressing
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- noun
- /bluː tʃiːz ˈdrɛsɪŋ/
:
aderezo de queso azul
- Tornado Taters with blue cheese dressing
- salad with blue cheese dressing
- creamy blue cheese dressing
- wings with blue cheese dressing
Examples
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They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, and tuna from a can...
Blog text (27) -
Mix in the blue cheese dressing, chicken, and Cheddar cheese.
Blog text (12) -
With blue cheese dressing, on the side.
Fiction book (1991) -
Mixed green salad with 1000 blue cheese dressing.
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For this I made a rich, creamy blue-cheese dressing."
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The wings are grilled and come with a big cup of chunky blue cheese dressing.
Blog text (18) -
Oh, I LOVE the buffalo chicken tenders (don't skimp on the oh-so-chunky blue cheese dressing!)!
Blog text (9) -
Maybe at some young age, when the world was new and little things like blue cheese dressing on iceberg or Thanksgiving gravy on a soft roll could carve pathways straight to the pleasure center of our impressionable brains.
Blog text (5) -
I love to drizzle blue cheese dressing over my garden salad for added flavor.
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The chef prepared a fresh salad topped with blue cheese dressing and crunchy walnuts.
Synonyms
A creamy salad dressing made with crumbled blue cheese
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Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'blue cheese' specifies the type of cheese and 'dressing' names a salad sauce, so a learner who knows those words can infer it is a salad dressing made from blue cheese. This construction follows ordinary adjective + noun + noun composition and is cross-linguistically common, so its meaning is immediately recoverable.
Etymology
Blue cheese dressing is named because the creamy dressing is made with blue cheese, the cheese with blue lines or spots of mold. So, the name simply means a creamy sauce used as a 'salad' topping or a 'dip' that tastes of blue cheese.