queso
queso — noun
1. a thick, warm sauce prepared by melting cheese with chillies and sometimes tomat
a thick, warm sauce prepared by melting cheese with chillies and sometimes tomatoes, served as a dip for tortilla chips in Mexican and Tex‑Mex cooking.
Caleb ordered a bowl of queso to share with his friends at the Mexican restaurant.
countable container: 'a bowl of queso'
At the birthday party, Evelyn kept a slow cooker full of queso on the kitchen counter.
full of queso for serving at gatherings
Linh asked the waiter whether the queso could be made without spicy peppers.
For Super Bowl Sunday, Rodrigo simmered a big pot of queso and laid out fresh tortilla chips.
The queso that Hyun brought to the office potluck was gone within ten minutes.
There was only a little queso left in the bowl after the children finished their snacks.
- chili con queso
the full Spanish name for the same dish, more common on restaurant menus
- cheese dip
a broader term that can refer to any melted cheese sauce, not just the Mexican-style version with chillies
用法筆記
Queso is an uncountable noun, so it cannot be used with 'a' or 'an' directly (not ❌ 'a queso'). Instead, use a container phrase: a bowl of queso, a pot of queso.