mayonnaise
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: mayonnaises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Mayonnaise
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: mayonnaises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mayonnaising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mayonnaised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mayonnaised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Mayonnaise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks, vinegar or lemon juice, and seasoning, used on salads, with french fries, in sandwiches etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There are 250 foods, including mayonnaise, cheese and cocoa, that don't list ingredients at all.
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.
I grew up thinking that the blue and white Miracle Whip salad dressing jar in the fridge held the same substance the rest of the world knew as mayonnaise. / Now I know that mayonnaise is something entirely different.
The oils in store-bought mayonnaise range from olive oil to sunflower oil to safflower oil and some less desirable oils!
Most store-bought mayonnaise contains ingredients (vinegar, lemonjuice, and salt) that actually slow bacterial growth
gloss: Any cold dish with that dressing as an ingredient.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We served a lobster mayonnaise as a starter.
gloss: Any cream, for example for moisturizing the face or conditioning the hair, for which the base is egg yolks and oil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: hair mayonnaise
facial mayonnaise
They include cider vinegar, two pre-shampoo products, shampoo, conditioner, hair mayonnaise, oil, leave-in conditioner, end protector, revitalising styling spray and filtered water.
Then I implemented a lighter protein conditioner – such as hair mayonnaise, which I learned about from my cousin Renee – for the off weeks. I used this hidden gem in combination with olive oil (yes, I bought a kitchen bottle of olive oil – the same kind my grandmother used in every single delicious dish she ever cooked – strictly for use in my hair).
gloss: Exaggeration.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
informal
uncountable
examples: 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.
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 what was happening.
gloss: To cover or season with mayonnaise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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, […]
I thought of mayonnaising her racket handle or substituting it for sunblock, but decided against it.
Synonyms: mayo
Derived words: egg mayonnaise
lemonaise
lemon-aise
lime-aise
mayo
mayochup
mayomust
mayonnaise face
mayonnaiseless
mayonnaiselike
mayonnaisey
orange-aise
perinaise
veganaise
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: majonezë
lang: Arabic
word: مَايُونِيز
roman: mayunīz
lang: Arabic
word: مايونيز
roman: mayunez
lang: Armenian
word: մայոնեզ
roman: mayonez
lang: Assamese
word: মে’ওনিজ
roman: mëüniz
lang: Asturian
word: mayonesa
lang: Azerbaijani
word: mayonez
lang: Basque
word: maionesa
lang: Belarusian
word: маянэ́з
roman: majanéz
lang: Bengali
word: মেয়নেজ
roman: meẏnej
lang: Bulgarian
word: майоне́за
roman: majonéza
lang: Catalan
word: maionesa
lang: Cebuano
word: mayones
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 蛋黃醬 /蛋黄酱
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 沙律醬 /沙律酱
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 美乃滋
roman: měinǎizī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 美乃滋醬 /美乃滋酱
roman: měinǎizījiàng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 沙拉醬 /沙拉酱
roman: shālājiàng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 蛋黃醬 /蛋黄酱
roman: dànhuángjiàng
lang: Corsican
word: maiunese
lang: Corsican
word: maiunesa
lang: Czech
word: majonéza
lang: Danish
word: mayonnaise
lang: Danish
word: majonæse
lang: Dutch
word: mayonaise
lang: Esperanto
word: majonezo
lang: Estonian
word: majonees
lang: Faroese
word: majonesa
lang: Finnish
word: majoneesi
lang: French
word: mayonnaise
lang: Galician
word: maionesa
lang: Georgian
word: მაიონეზი
roman: maionezi
lang: German
word: Mayonnaise
lang: German
word: Majo
lang: German
word: Mayo
lang: Greek
word: μαγιονέζα
roman: magionéza
lang: Haitian Creole
word: mayonèz
lang: Hebrew
word: מָיוֹנִית
roman: mayonit
lang: Hebrew
word: מָיוֹנֶז
roman: mayonéz
lang: Hindi
word: मेयोनेज़
roman: meyonez
lang: Hungarian
word: majonéz
lang: Icelandic
word: majónes
lang: Indonesian
word: mayones
lang: Irish
word: maonáis
lang: Italian
word: maionese
lang: Japanese
word: マヨネーズ
roman: mayonēzu
lang: Kazakh
word: майонез
roman: maionez
lang: Khmer
word: ម៉ាយូណេស
roman: maayuuneeh
lang: Korean
word: 마요네즈
roman: mayonejeu
lang: Kyrgyz
word: майонез
roman: mayonez
lang: Lao
word: ຊອດໄຂ່ແດງ
roman: sǭt khai dǣng
lang: Lao
word: ມາຢໍແນດ
roman: mā yǭ nǣt
lang: Latvian
word: majonēze
lang: Lithuanian
word: majonezas
lang: Macedonian
word: мајоне́з
roman: majonéz
lang: Malay
word: mayones
lang: Malay
word: mayonis
lang: Manx
word: sooslagh bwinnican
lang: Marathi
word: मेयोनेझ
roman: meyonejh
lang: Eastern Mari
word: майонез
roman: majońez
lang: Mongolian
word: майонез
roman: majonez
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: majones
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: majones
lang: Persian
word: مایونز
roman: mâyonez
lang: Piedmontese
word: majones
lang: Polish
word: majonez
lang: Portuguese
word: maionese
lang: Romanian
word: maioneză
lang: Russian
word: майоне́з
roman: majonɛ́z
lang: Samoan
word: meio
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мајонеза
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мајонез
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: majoneza
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: majonez
lang: Slovak
word: majonéza
lang: Slovene
word: majoneza
lang: Spanish
word: mayonesa
lang: Swedish
word: majonnäs
lang: Tagalog
word: mayonesa
lang: Tagalog
word: krema ng ensalada
lang: Tajik
word: майонез
roman: mayonez
lang: Tatar
word: майонез
roman: mayonez
lang: Thai
word: มายองเนส
roman: maa-yɔng-nées
lang: Turkish
word: mayonez
lang: Turkmen
word: maýonez
lang: Ukrainian
word: майоне́з
roman: majonéz
lang: Urdu
word: میئونیز
roman: meyonez
lang: Uzbek
word: mayonez
lang: Vietnamese
word: may-on-ne
lang: Vietnamese
word: mai-o-ne
lang: Vietnamese
word: ma-giô-ne
lang: Volapük
word: mäyonäd
lang: Welsh
word: mayonnaise
lang: Yiddish
word: מאַיאָנעז
roman: mayonez
lang: Zulu
word: mayonezi