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In a small blender, combine mayo, sour cream, heavy cream, garlic, tomato paste, balsamic vinegar, basil, and Parmesan cheese. Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 May 2025 The dish is simple, a bowl of roasted corn is topped with a large dollop of mayo and a tangy-spicy sauce, then dusted with cotija cheese and chili powder. Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 23 May 2025 The 2,000-square-foot space has plenty of room for remote workers to claim an outlet and order lunch items like a deconstructed BLT sandwich that gets layered on a pizza crust with ricotta mayo. Kristin Braswell, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 May 2025 This is because our hero stacker—that classic white-bread tomato sandwich with tomato and a slather of mayo—is all dependent on those ripe, juicy heirloom tomatoes plucked straight off the vine and cut into beefy slices. Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 11 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for mayo

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1960, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mayo was circa 1960

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“Mayo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mayo. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

Geographical Definition

Mayo

geographical name

1
ˈmī-(ˌ)ō How to pronounce Mayo (audio) river 250 miles (402 kilometers) long in the northwestern Mexico state of Sonora flowing southwest into the Gulf of California
2
ˈmā-(ˌ)ō How to pronounce Mayo (audio) county of northwestern Ireland on the Atlantic in Connacht; capital Castlebar area 2084 square miles (5418 square kilometers), population 130,638

Biographical Definition

Mayo

biographical name

Charles Horace 1865–1939 and his brother William James 1861–1939 American surgeons

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