blue cheese
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2.8
- noun
- /bluː tʃiːz/
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queso azul
- Toss the squash, onion, olive oil, 1/2 cup bread crumbs, thyme, and blue cheese in a large mixing bowl.
- blue cheese dressing
- crumbled blue cheese
- a blue cheese salad
Dry man is here and of course, dry man loves blue cheese.
- Dry man is here and of course, dry man loves blue cheese.
- Why is it a fucking salad leaf with pomegranates and blue cheese?
- The tiniest little piece of stinky, stinky blue cheese and Pickles.
- So if yours is classic Rhett blue cheese, the question is, is mine classic me?
- One of them is a Thai tea parfait and the other is a pumpkin ganache with some pear sorbet, blue cheese and cornflake crunch.
Examples
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I have brought him some French blue cheese and crackers because blue cheese was always his favorite.
Academic text (2003) -
I'll make you a super awesome steak medium-rare with the butter and the blue cheese and the truffle oil drizzled over the French fries.
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- Can I get an extra side of blue cheese?
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It's just sour cream and blue cheese.
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Speaking of crumbling, is that a new blue cheese I see?
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Then go online, find the recipe for blue cheese coleslaw.
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The wings are grilled and come with a big cup of chunky blue cheese dressing.
Blog text (18) -
The carrots and celery weren't the freshest, either, but the blue cheese sauce was great.
Blog text (9) -
And then I'm going to buy the following things: some really good chewy crusty bread, a hunk of really good blue cheese, an avocado and some red grapes with no seeds.
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Can I get an extra side of blue cheese for my salad?
Synonyms
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7.4
A cheese with blue-green mold and a strong taste
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is compositional: 'blue' (a color) modifies 'cheese' (a dairy product), indicating a type of cheese that is blue/has blue-green mold veins. This descriptive, literal relation is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words can reasonably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Blue cheese comes from real blue cheese that gets blue or green veins when a harmless mold grows as it ages in cool, damp places. Those blue veins give the cheese a strong, sharp taste, so blue cheese today means 'a cheese with blue veins and a strong flavor'.