English Explanatory Dictionary

mayonnaise

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks, vinegar or lemon juice, and seasoning, used on salads, with french fries, in sandwiches etc.
  2. Any cold dish with that dressing as an ingredient.
  3. Any cream, for example for moisturizing the face or conditioning the hair, for which the base is egg yolks and oil.
  4. Exaggeration.
verb
  1. To cover or season with mayonnaise.
noun
  1. In full Mayonnaise sauce or sauce Mayonnaise: alternative letter-case form of mayonnaise.

Pronunciation

/ˈmeɪ.ə.neɪz/ /ˌmeɪ.əˈneɪz/ /ˈmæn.eɪz/ [ˈmɛən-] en-us-mayonnaise.ogg /ˌmejəˈneːs/ /ˌmejəˈneɪs/ [ˈmɐ.jɔ.nɛs]

Word forms

mayonnaise mayonnaises mayonnaising mayonnaised

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

mayo

Derived words

egg mayonnaise lemonaise lemon-aise lime-aise mayo mayochup mayomust mayonnaise face mayonnaiseless mayonnaiselike mayonnaisey orange-aise perinaise veganaise

Translations

Albanian: majonezë Arabic: مَايُونِيز Arabic: مايونيز Armenian: մայոնեզ Assamese: মে’ওনিজ Asturian: mayonesa Azerbaijani: mayonez Basque: maionesa Belarusian: маянэ́з Bengali: মেয়নেজ Bulgarian: майоне́за Catalan: maionesa Cebuano: mayones Chinese Cantonese: 蛋黃醬 /蛋黄酱 Chinese Cantonese: 沙律醬 /沙律酱 Chinese Mandarin: 美乃滋 Chinese Mandarin: 美乃滋醬 /美乃滋酱 Chinese Mandarin: 沙拉醬 /沙拉酱 Chinese Mandarin: 蛋黃醬 /蛋黄酱 Corsican: maiunese Corsican: maiunesa Czech: majonéza Danish: mayonnaise Danish: majonæse Dutch: mayonaise Esperanto: majonezo Estonian: majonees Faroese: majonesa Finnish: majoneesi French: mayonnaise Galician: maionesa Georgian: მაიონეზი German: Mayonnaise German: Majo German: Mayo Greek: μαγιονέζα Haitian Creole: mayonèz Hebrew: מָיוֹנִית Hebrew: מָיוֹנֶז Hindi: मेयोनेज़ Hungarian: majonéz Icelandic: majónes Indonesian: mayones Irish: maonáis Italian: maionese Japanese: マヨネーズ Kazakh: майонез Khmer: ម៉ាយូណេស Korean: 마요네즈 Kyrgyz: майонез
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