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cheese

1

[ cheez ]

noun

  1. the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food.
  2. a definite mass of this substance, often in the shape of a wheel or cylinder.
  3. something of similar shape or consistency, as a mass of pulpy apple residue in cider making.
  4. Informal. partly digested milk curds sometimes spit up by infants.
  5. cheeses, any of several mallows, especially Malva neglecta, a sprawling, weedy plant having small lavender or white flowers and round, flat, segmented fruits thought to resemble little wheels of cheese.
  6. Slang: Vulgar. smegma.
  7. Slang. money:

    I’m just trying to get my name out there and hopefully earn some cheese.

  8. Metalworking.
    1. a transverse section cut from an ingot, as for making into a tire.
    2. an ingot or billet made into a convex, circular form by blows at the ends.
  9. a low curtsy.


verb (used without object)

, cheesed, chees·ing.
  1. Informal. (of infants) to spit up partly digested milk curds.

verb (used with object)

, cheesed, chees·ing.
  1. (in a game, especially a video game) to win (a battle round) by using a strategy that requires minimal skill and knowledge or that exploits a glitch or flaw in game design:

    He cheesed the fight by trapping his enemy in the environment and attacking without taking damage.

  2. Metalworking. to forge (an ingot or billet) into a cheese.

cheese

2

[ cheez ]

verb (used with object)

, Slang.
, cheesed, chees·ing.
  1. to stop; desist.

cheese

3

[ cheez ]

noun

, Slang.
  1. Slang. the cheese,
    1. a person or thing that is splendid or first-rate.
    2. something that is exactly what is wanted or required.

cheese

1

/ tʃiːz /

noun

  1. the curd of milk separated from the whey and variously prepared as a food
  2. a mass or complete cake of this substance
  3. any of various substances of similar consistency, etc

    lemon cheese

  4. big cheese slang.
    an important person
  5. as alike as chalk and cheese or as different as chalk and cheese
    See chalk
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


cheese

2

/ tʃiːz /

verb

  1. tr to stop; desist
  2. slang:prison.
    intr to act in a grovelling manner
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cheese1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English chese, Old English cēse (cognate with Old Saxon and Old High German kāsi, German Käse ), from Germanic kasjus, from Latin cāseus

Origin of cheese2

First recorded in 1805–15; perhaps alteration of cease

Origin of cheese3

First recorded in 1835–40 cheese 3fordef 2; 1895–1900 cheese 3fordef 1; from Urdu chīz “thing, valuable thing,” from Persian cīz, from Old Persian cish(-ciy) “(some)thing”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cheese1

Old English cēse, from Latin cāseus cheese; related to Old Saxon kāsi

Origin of cheese2

C19: of unknown origin
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. cheese it, Slang.
    1. look out!
    2. run away!
  2. cut the cheese, Slang. to expel gas from the stomach and bowels through the anus; fart.

More idioms and phrases containing cheese

  • big cheese
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Example Sentences

Digging back into these old cookbooks is an opportunity to eschew the fatphobic, classist expectations that govern what is “good” and “bad” food and just eat the damn fake cheese.

From Eater

It’s the stacking of “multiple layers of cheese on top of each other that close those holes,” she says.

Every public-health measure to limit the spread of a virus “is like a layer of Swiss cheese,” Blaisdell says.

We want to end your pain and suffering by offering you some options for precise pizza cutters that can cut through even the thickest layer of cheese.

“Every public health layer is like a layer of Swiss cheese with a hole in it,” Blaisdell says.

Mixing meat and dairy is a kosher rule-breaker, so they switched the cheese for potatoes.

Before serving, bake the cheese packages, combine the salad and vinaigrette, and serve.

Bake the goat cheese packages for 15 to 20 minutes, until golden brown.

A French green bean salad with warm goat cheese reminds Ina Garten of having lunch in Paris.

I remember them coming over all adorable with mac and cheese, collard greens, fried chicken.

Aristide lived on bread and cheese, and foresaw the time when cheese would be a sinful luxury.

A bailee received some cheese and gave a receipt slating that it was to be kept at the owner's risk of loss from water.

Coals!what would he do with coals?Toast his cheese with em, and then come back for more.

The brown loaf was cut by a very excited little hostess into five thick squares; the cheese into four.

Between the pastry and the dessert, have salad and cheese placed before each guest.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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