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thousand island dressing

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English

Syllables
thou-sand is-land -dress-ing
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A salad dressing of mayonnaise, ketchup, Tabasco sauce and finely chopped vegetables.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Thousand Island + dressing, because the dressing has often been said to have originated in the Thousand Islands region, located along the upper St Lawrence River, near its head at Lake Ontario, between the United States and Canada. As Wikipedia explains, this etymology is not known with certainty.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Thousand Island dressings (plural) Thousand Islands dressing (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

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Synonyms

Thousand Island sauce Thousand Islands sauce Thousand Island salad dressing Thousand Islands salad dressing

Questions

What does thousand island dressing mean?
A salad dressing of mayonnaise, ketchup, Tabasco sauce and finely chopped vegetables.
Where does thousand island dressing come from?
From Thousand Island + dressing, because the dressing has often been said to have originated in the Thousand Islands region, located along the upper St Lawrence River, near its head at Lake Ontario, between the United States and Canada. As Wikipedia explains, this etymology is not known with certainty.

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