chicken salad
23
1.0
- noun
:
ensalada de pollo
- May I get you some chicken salad?
- samples of chicken salad
The mango Curry chicken salad was so good, wasn't it, Mom?
- The mango Curry chicken salad was so good, wasn't it, Mom?
- And our dinner was a homemade chicken salad that my partner had made.
- I think I'm going to do just some like salt and pepper chicken salad and rice.
- We had catfish, pizza, coleslaw, grapes, sweet tea, cookies, brownies, lasagna, chicken salad.
- It's like the toast that I make for my kids that I grew up on, and it tastes like chicken, like a little chicken salad.
- And as soon as I set it down, Alex Lewis grabbed something and dropped the entire bowl of chicken salad onto the carpeted floor of this airport.
Examples
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After the ceremony, we had the usual chicken salad and Champagne.
Fiction book (2002) -
B. is having the chicken salad on pita bread.
Fiction book (2000) -
Did you finish the chicken salad?
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May I have the chicken salad, please?
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And our dinner was a homemade chicken salad that my partner had made.
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At home, I spent about an hour making chicken salad for a sandwich.
Fiction book (1996) -
I got an Asian chicken salad and then some fries.
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You won't taste a better chicken salad in town.
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We can choose to either make a grilled chicken salad or fried chicken with French fries on the side.
Blog text (12) -
May I have the chicken salad, please?
How Filling
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'chicken' (the meat) with 'salad' (a cold dish of mixed ingredients), yielding a salad whose primary ingredient is chicken. This follows a regular noun+noun compounding pattern common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Chicken salad is a name for a cold dish where cooked, chopped chicken is mixed into a salad with mayonnaise, celery, or fruit. So the name simply describes a 'salad' whose main ingredient is 'chicken'.