mayonnaise

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   A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks, vinegar or lemon juice, and seasoning, used on salads, with French fries, in sandwiches, etc.countableuncountable

   • There are 250 foods, including mayonnaise, cheese and cocoa, that don't list ingredients at all.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Any cold dish with that dressing as an ingredient.countableuncountable

   • We served a lobster mayonnaise as a starter.
3. 3

   Any cream, for example for moisturizing the face or conditioning the hair, for which the base is egg yolks and oil.countableuncountable

   • hair mayonnaise
   • facial mayonnaise
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   Exaggeration.Australiacountableinformal

   • 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.

syn. mayo

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   To cover or season with mayonnaise.transitive

   • 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.