Meaning

Topped with or accompanied by anchovies..

Example Sentences

In about an hour and a half the talk is brought to an end; but our hospitable bursar will give us coffee and anchovied toast in his room, where the interrupted threads of conversation are resumed, and the commenced arguments are fought out.

Paul (Angostura) Pepe says the Jet Set has a new passion, a dance called “the Frug,” with cheese and anchovied pizzas to nibble on between flings, and plenty of Bitterspritzers.

[…] while Max and Madeleine float backwards and forwards from the kitchen into the yard, bringing bowls of Ritz biscuits, peanuts and anchovied eggs to accompany their drinks.

The bacon is real, and nicely crisp, the parmesan is freshly grated, the greens are bouncy and tossed with a well-lemoned and -anchovied dressing.

A dinner-plate-sized Caesar salad ($6.95), tossed with lots of creamy anchovied dressing, and exceptionally creamy homemade mozzarella ($7.95, unfortunately with wan tomatoes) were two appetizers I would have been generally pleased with in an Italian restaurant.

The zucchini was sliced in half and baked so that it was watery and tasteless, suffocated by a thick layer of heavily anchovied Caesar dressing and covered in a confusing chunky bread crumble, along with chives.

Mustardy green beans with anchovied walnuts from “Nothing Fancy” by Alison Roman — This is maybe my new favorite way to prepare pole beans, whether green, purple or yellow.

We had the kale Caesar instead (good call, carbs-wise; crisp and lemony and anchovied just enough).

Word Forms

• more anchovied
• most anchovied

When Should You Use Anchovied?

Use anchovied when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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