guacamole

[ gwah-kuh-moh-lee; Spanish gwah-kah-maw-le ]

noun

, Mexican Cooking.

1. a dip of mashed avocado mixed with tomato, onion, and seasonings.

guacamole

/ ˌɡwɑːkəˈməʊlɪ /

noun

1. a spread of mashed avocado, tomato pulp, mayonnaise, and seasoning
2. any of various Mexican or South American salads containing avocado

Word History and Origins

Origin of guacamole¹

1915–20; < Mexican Spanish < Nahuatl āhuacamōlli literally, avocado sauce; avocado, mole ⁶

Word History and Origins

Origin of guacamole¹

from American Spanish, from Nahuatl ahuacamolli, from ahuacatl avocado + molli sauce

Example Sentences

The partnership produced Autocado, which cuts, cores and peels avocados before workers hand-mash them to create guacamole.

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He is, however, very hungry and quickly orders sparkling water, a Macallan 12-year-old Scotch on the rocks, and some chips with guacamole.

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“Guacamole and Scotch, is that gross? Who knows?” he asks.

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Over chips, salsa and guacamole, the cousins grilled Newsom about the Mount Vernon bridge project.

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In the early 1980s, in the 1990s, returning like a malarial fever, the enemy was the Medfly, the Mediterranean fruit fly — pest, parasite, glutton for our golden harvests, despoiler of sunny citrus and rosy peaches, murderer of guacamole avocados.

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