sapsago

[ sap-sey-goh, sap-suh-goh ]

noun

1. a strong, hard, usually green cheese of Swiss origin, made with sour skim milk and sweet clover.

sapsago

/ ˈsæpsəˌɡəʊ /

noun

1. a hard greenish Swiss cheese made with sour skimmed milk and coloured and flavoured with clover

Word History and Origins

Origin of sapsago¹

1840–50, Americanism; alteration of German Schabziger, Schabzieger, equivalent to schab ( en ) to grate + Zi ( e ) ger a kind of cheese

Word History and Origins

Origin of sapsago¹

C19: changed from German Schabziger, from schaben to grate + dialect Ziger a kind of cheese

Example Sentences

Sapsago, sap′sā-gō, n. a greenish Swiss cheese.

From Project Gutenberg

Kreuterkäse, Herb Cheese Switzerland Hard, grating cheese flavored with herbs; like Sapsago or Grunkäse.

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Sapsago has its own seduction, derived from the clover-leaf powder with which the curd is mixed and which gives it its haunting flavor and spring-like sage-green color.

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Good when overlaid with cheese butter of contrasting piquance, say one mixed with Sapsago.

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The imported but still cheap green Sapsago is not to be forgotten when mixing your own cheese butter.

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