mayonnaise
UK/ˈmeɪ.ə.neɪz//ˌmeɪ.əˈneɪz/
mayonnaise noun: a dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks, vinegar or lemon juice, and seasoning, used on salads, with French fries, in sandwiches, etc.
Noun (1)
mayonnaise (countable and uncountable, plural mayonnaises)
- A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks, vinegar or lemon juice, and seasoning, used on salads, with French fries, in sandwiches, etc.
- There are 250 foods, including mayonnaise, cheese and cocoa, that don't list ingredients at all.1985 May, Boys' Life, volume 75, number 5, page 20
- The FDA's original intent for foods included under "standards of identity" ensured that terms like "mayonnaise" or "ice cream” would guarantee the same basic ingredients required in the government-established recipe no matter who manufactured it.1975, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Joy of Cooking, page 7
- Any cold dish with that dressing as an ingredient.
- We served a lobster mayonnaise as a starter.
- Any cream, for example for moisturizing the face or conditioning the hair, for which the base is egg yolks and oil.
- hair mayonnaise
- facial mayonnaise
- Exaggeration.
- Rancey and our coach, Damien Hardwick, still both joke that "Dimma" tried to off-load him for a sixpack of beers and a bucket of chips in his first few years, but I think they both put some mayonnaise on the story these days.2017 March 2, Trent Cotchin, “Alex Rance is one of the most competitive humans that has walked the planet, writes Trent Cotchin”, in Herald Sun, Melbourne, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2024
- If he had a reputation among supporters of playing for free kicks he wasn't aware of it and no one from the AFL or coaches spoke to him specifically about changing his style. But he admits, he would "put some mayonnaise" on top of what defenders had done to him to ensure the umpires were aware of...2020 August 27, Peter Ryan, “The (football) world is a stage, and players think umpires should police it”, in The Age, Melbourne
Verb
mayonnaise (third-person singular simple present mayonnaises, present participle mayonnaising, simple past and past participle mayonnaised)
- To cover or season with mayonnaise.
- Jones himself presided in the kitchen, mincing truffles, mayonnaising lobster, booting waiters out the door with tray after tray of steaming savories and teeth-numbing sweets, […]1998, Trace Farrell, The Ruins, page 153
- I thought of mayonnaising her racket handle or substituting it for sunblock, but decided against it.2009, David Galef, How to Cope With Suburban Stress
Noun (2) capitalized: Mayonnaise
Mayonnaise (countable and uncountable, plural Mayonnaises)
- In full Mayonnaise sauce or sauce Mayonnaise: alternative letter-case form of mayonnaise.
- The reader who may have a prejudice against the unboiled eggs which enter into the composition of the Mayonnaise, will find that the most fastidious taste would not detect their being raw, if the sauce be well made; […] Abroad, boiled asparagus is very frequently served cold, and eaten with oil and...1845, Eliza Acton, Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, for the Use of Private Families. […], London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, […], pages 135...
- A cold roast fowl, Mayonnaise sauce No. 468, 4 or 5 young lettuces, 4 hard-boiled eggs, a few water-cresses, endive. Mode.—Cut the fowl into neat joints, lay them in a deep dish, piling them high in the centre, sauce the fowl with Mayonnaise made by recipe No. 468, and garnish the dish with young...1861, Isabella Beeton, “Recipes [Poultry]”, in The Book of Household Management; […], London: S[amuel] O[rchart] Beeton, […], →OCLC, paragraph 962 (Fowl à la Mayonnaise), page 472
mayonnaise meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mayonnaise in Hindi
- dressing
- मेयोनेज़ meyonez
mayonnaise in Tamil
- சுவைக் குழைவு
mayonnaise in Marathi
- dressing
- मेयोनेझ meyonejh
mayonnaise in Urdu
- dressing
- میئونیز meyonez
More languagesFewer languages
- mayonnaise in Bengali
- মেয়নেজ meẏnej
- mayonnaise in Telugu
- మయోన్నైస్, మయోన్నైజ్, మయోనేస్
- mayonnaise in Malayalam
- മയോന്നൈസ്, മയോണൈസ്, മയോണേസ്
- mayonnaise in Kannada
- ಮೇಯನೇಸ್, ಮಯೋನ್ನೈಸ್, ಮಯೋನೇಸ್
- mayonnaise in Punjabi
- ਮੇਯੋਨੇਜ਼, ਮੇਯੋਨਾਈਜ਼, ਮੇਯੋਨਾਈਜ਼ਿੰਗ
- mayonnaise in Gujarati
- મેયોનેઝ, માયોનેઝ, મેયોનીઝ
- mayonnaise in Odia
- ମେଯ଼ୋନେଜ୍, ମେଯ଼ୋନିଜ, ମେଯ଼ୋନେଜ୍ କରିବା
- mayonnaise in Assamese
- মে’ওনিজ mëüniz
- mayonnaise in Nepali
- मेयोनेज़, मेयोनेज, मेयोनिज
- mayonnaise in Tagalog
- mayonesa, krema ng ensalada
- mayonnaise in Arabic
- مَايُونِيز mayunīz
- mayonnaise in Malay
- mayones, mayonis
- mayonnaise in Indonesian
- mayones
- mayonnaise in Persian
- مایونز mâyonez
- mayonnaise in Thai
- มายองเนส maa-yɔng-nées
- mayonnaise in Vietnamese
- may-on-ne, mai-o-ne, ma-giô-ne
Examples of mayonnaise in a sentence
- The oils in store-bought mayonnaise range from olive oil to sunflower oil to safflower oil and some less desirable oils!2008, Jan McCracken, The Everything Lactose Free Cookbook:
- Most store-bought mayonnaise contains ingredients (vinegar, lemonjuice, and salt) that actually slow bacterial growth2012, Marie A. Boyle, Sara Long Roth, Personal Nutrition:
- They include cider vinegar, two pre-shampoo products, shampoo, conditioner, hair mayonnaise, oil, leave-in conditioner, end protector, revitalising styling spray and filtered water.2016, Emma Tarlo, Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair, Oneworld Publications, →ISBN:
- Then I implemented a lighter protein conditioner – such as hair mayonnaise, which I learned about from my cousin Renee – for the off weeks.2010, Rhea E. Santangelo, Grow It Girl! How I Took My Hair from Broken to Beautiful, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 26:
Synonyms of mayonnaise
Forms of mayonnaise
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | mayonnaises |
| plural | Mayonnaises |
| alternative form (obsolete) | Mayonnaise |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | mayonnaises |
| present participle | mayonnaising |
| past participle | mayonnaised |
| past | mayonnaised |
Origin of mayonnaise
Unadapted borrowing from French mayonnaise, possibly named after the city of Maó (Mahón in Spanish), Minorca, whence the recipe was brought back to France. Compare Spanish mahonesa. Alternative suggested origins include the city of Bayonne (bayonnaise); the Duke of Mayenne and the words manier (“to handle”) in French or moyeu (“eye yolk”) in Old French.
Words formed from mayonnaise
- egg mayonnaise
- lemonaise
- lemon-aise
- lime-aise
- mayo
- mayochup
- mayomust
- mayonnaise face
- mayonnaiseless
- mayonnaiselike
- mayonnaisey
- orange-aise
- perinaise
- veganaise
Phrases with mayonnaise
Words that rhyme with mayonnaise
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- amaze
- appraise
- craze
- fraise
- gaze
- phrase
- ablaze
- braise
- chaise
- lase
- liaise
- malaise
- maze
- peise
- baize
- bayes
- bolognese
- braize
- braze
- days
- daze
- emprise
- laze
- overglaze
- praise
- reyse
- ukase
- upraise
- abbes
- abrase
- acraze
- affrays
- arrays
- assays
- bays
- bayze
- blays
- bordelaise
- borrowing days
- brays
- cays
- chays
- clays
- conveys
- crays
- crème anglaise
- decays
- delays
Questions about mayonnaise
- What does mayonnaise mean?
- Mayonnaise means a dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks, vinegar or lemon juice, and seasoning, used on salads, with French fries, in sandwiches, etc.
- What is mayonnaise in Hindi?
- Mayonnaise in Hindi is मेयोनेज़ (meyonez). See Mayonnaise meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use mayonnaise in a sentence?
- The oils in store-bought mayonnaise range from olive oil to sunflower oil to safflower oil and some less desirable oils!
- What part of speech is mayonnaise?
- Mayonnaise can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce mayonnaise?
- Mayonnaise is pronounced /ˈmeɪ.ə.neɪz/ (UK).
- What is the plural of mayonnaise?
- The plural of mayonnaise is mayonnaises.
Words near mayonnaise in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mayonnaise (page history and authors); Mayonnaise (page history and authors); mayonnaise (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mayonnaise (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mayonnaise (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mayonnaise (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mayonnaise (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mayonnaise (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mayonnaise (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mayonnaise (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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