mayonnaise
A dressing made from vegetable oil, raw egg yolks, vinegar or lemon juice, and seasoning, used on salads, with french fries, in sandwiches etc.
Other meanings
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”
A kind of
- dressing
Kinds of mayonnaise
- green mayonnaise
Related words
- mayo
- mayonnaiseless
- mayonnaiselike
- mayonnaisey
- egg mayonnaise
- mayonnaise face
- perinaise
- veganaise
- lime-aise
- orange-aise
- mayochup
- mayomust
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “mayonnaise” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.