smearcase

American  

[smeer-keys] / ˈsmɪərˌkeɪs /

Also smiercase,

noun

Chiefly North Midland U.S.

1. any soft cheese suitable for spreading or eating with a spoon, especially a sour cottage cheese.

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Regionalisms

See cottage cheese.

Etymology

Origin of smearcase

1820–30, half translation, half adoption of German Schmierkäse, equivalent to schmier ( en ) to spread, smear + Käse cheese ¹

Example Sentences

“That was just a joke. We’re going to have potato salad and smearcase and cold chicken and apple pie and lots of other good things. We’ve been cooking ever since your father called.”

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

One finds also here and there a word from the "Pennsylvania Dutch," such as "waumus" for a loose jacket, from the German wamms, a doublet, and "smearcase" for cottage cheese, from the German schmierkäse.

From The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana by Eggleston, Edward

Open-faced Cheese Pie 3 eggs 1 cup sugar 2 pounds soft smearcase Whip everything together and fill two pie crusts.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton

In America it's also called pot, Dutch, and smearcase.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton

The English, who like playful names for homely dishes, call cottage cheese smearcase from the German Schmierkäse.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton