mayo
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Definition of mayo
16 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable)Clipping of mayonnaise.
“Pass me the mayo, please.”
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noun
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(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable)Clipping of mayonnaise.
“Pass me the mayo, please.”
- (Internet, countable, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur)A white person.
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(Australia, countable, informal, uncountable)Exaggeration.
“Judging by the scorecard, Skull may have laid a dollop of mayo on the story, but who cares when the story is that well told?”
“[Twomey:] Let's start with one you've never been asked in an interview: did you know Patrick Cripps pulled your hair last week? [Smith:] That's a good question. We laughed about it during the game because I put a bit of mayo on it to see if I could milk a free kick.”
“... He played a forward defensive shot, and he held it like it was a beautiful cover drive, and someone said, "Oh, mate, stop adding the mayo! It's just a forward defensive, you flog!"”
- A people indigenous to Mexico, living mainly in the northern states of Sonora and Sinaloa.
name
- A county of Ireland.
- A village in County Mayo, Ireland.
- A townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.
- A municipality of Papineau Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
- A village in Yukon, Canada.
- A town, the county seat of Lafayette County, Florida, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Kentucky, United States.
- A census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States.
- A census-designated place in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.
- A surname.
- A Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Mono people of northern Mexico.
- A town in southwest Ivory Coast.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Derived from Irish Maigh Eo * (surname): Possibly instead derived from Old French, “Maiheu” from Hebrew, “Matthew”
Words you can make from mayo
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