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queso

/ˈkeɪsəʊ/US/ˈkeɪsoʊ/

queso is the ellipsis of chile con queso.

Meaning of chile con queso

Noun

chile con queso (uncountable)

  1. A creamy sauce used as a dip, made from melted cheese and chili peppers.
    • Big Tony, who had been quietly puffing on his cigarillo at the door—no intruders here!—takes delivery of an impressive three-foot-high spray of flowers and very carefully walks over and deposits it square in the middle of a steam table, right in the rickety middle of hissing bowls of chile con...1984, Chet Flippo, David Bowie’s Serious Moonlight: The World Tour, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 148
    Synonyms:
    queso

Forms of queso

pluralquesos

Origin of queso

Borrowed from Spanish queso, as found in Tex-Mex cuisine. Doublet of cheese.

Phrases with queso

Questions about queso

What is queso the ellipsis of?
Queso is the ellipsis of chile con queso.
How do you pronounce queso?
Queso is pronounced /ˈkeɪsoʊ/ (US).

Words near queso in the dictionary

  1. quesited
  2. quesiteds
  3. quesitive
  4. Quesnel
  5. Quesnels
  6. queso
  7. queso fresco
  8. quesos
  9. quesos frescos
  10. quest
  11. quest.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: queso (page history and authors); chile con queso (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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