cheese
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- enPR: chēz, IPA(key): /t͡ʃiːz/
- (General American) IPA(key): /t͡ʃiz/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -iːz
- Homophone: qis
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English chese, from Old English ċīese, specifically the Anglian form ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso.
NounEdit
cheese (countable and uncountable, plural cheeses)
- (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
- (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
- (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
- (uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
- 2012, Hill, Katrina, Action Movie Freak, page 117:
- It's time to add some cheese to this action burger! Every genre has them, everybody loves them ... it's the parodies!
- 2012 June 18, Lambie, Ryan, “10 delightfully cheesy 90s sci-fi movie trailers”, in Den of Geek![2]:
- A film ostensibly about the lead singer of a hair metal band killing innocent people on a future planet Earth, Alienator is the epitome of low-budget cheese.
- (uncountable, slang) Money.
- (countable, Britain) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
- (uncountable, slang, baseball) A fastball.
- (uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
- (vulgar, slang) Smegma.
- (technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
- 2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation
- It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout pattern density.
- 2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation
- A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
- 2011, Rutledge, P., “Production of Non-Fermented Fruit Products”, in D. Arthey, P.R. Ashurst, editor, Fruit Processing, →ISBN, page 77:
- Apple pulp is poured into the cloth until the frame is full. The edges of the cloth are folded over the pulp forming a cloth-bound bed of apple pulp, called a 'cheese' as it resembles the European-style bound cheese. The frame is removed, a divider is placed on the 'cheese' and another 'cheese' is built on top of the first, and so on.
- The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
- A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
- 1853, De Quincey, Thomas, “I Enter the World”, in Autobiographic Sketches:
- The time was morning; the young lady was not fifteen; her spirits were as the spirits of a fawn in May; her tour of duty for the day was either not come, or was gone; and, finding herself alone in a spacious room, what more reasonable thing could she do than amuse herself with making cheeses? that is, whirling round, according to a fashion practised by young ladies both in France and England, and pirouetting until the petticoat is inflated like a balloon, and then sinking into a courtesy.
- 1857, Thackeray, William Makepeace, chapter 34, in The Virginians:
- "I thank your ladyship, I don't like tanzing, and I don't like cards," says Miss Hester, tossing up her head; and, dropping a curtsey like a "cheese," she strutted away from the Countess's table.
SynonymsEdit
- (money): See Thesaurus:money
AntonymsEdit
- (circuitry): fill (“dummy pattern to increase pattern density”)
HyponymsEdit
- (dairy product): See Thesaurus:cheese
Derived termsEdit
- Abertam cheese
- American cheese
- Añejo cheese
- apple-cheese
- Asiago cheese
- basket cheese
- bleu cheese
- blue cheese
- Bonchester cheese
- bread and cheese
- brick cheese
- Brussels' cheese
- Buxton Blue cheese
- Cabrales cheese
- Caerphilly cheese
- Caithness cheese
- Camembert cheese
- cauliflower cheese
- chalk and cheese
- Chaumes cheese
- Cheddar cheese
- cheese and bread
- cheese-bail
- cheese board, cheese-board, cheeseboard
- cheese-borer
- cheese-bowl
- cheese-box
- cheese-bug
- cheeseburger
- cheesecake
- cheese-cement
- cheese cloth, cheesecloth, cheese-clout
- cheese-cratch
- cheese-crate
- cheese curds
- cheese-cutter, cheesecutter
- cheesed, cheesed off
- cheese dip
- cheese dish
- cheese down
- cheese fingers
- cheese fly
- cheese grater
- cheese-hake, cheese-heck
- cheese-head
- cheese-headed
- cheese-hoop
- cheese-hopper, cheesehopper
- cheese-knife
- cheese ladder
- cheeseling
- cheese-maggot
- cheesemaker
- cheesemeister
- cheese mite
- cheese-moat
- cheese-mold, cheese-mould
- cheesemonger
- cheesen
- cheese off
- cheese-pale
- cheese-parer
- cheese-paring, cheeseparing
- cheese-plate
- cheese powder
- cheese-press
- cheeser
- cheese rack/cheese-rack
- cheese-ramekin
- cheese-rennet
- cheese-room
- cheese-running
- cheesery
- cheese-scoop
- cheese skipper
- cheese slaw
- cheese slicer
- cheese spread
- cheese straw
- cheese-taster
- cheese-toaster
- cheese-tub
- cheese-vat
- cheese-water
- cheesewire
- cheesewood
- cheese-wring
- cheesine
- cheesing
- cheesy
- Cheez Whiz
- Cheshire cheese
- Chevington cheese
- chèvre cheese
- Chihuahua cheese
- cock cheese
- Colby cheese
- Colby-Jack cheese
- Coon cheese
- Cornish Yarg cheese
- cotija cheese
- cottage cheese
- Cougar Gold cheese
- cream cheese, cream-cheese
- Criollo cheese
- Cuba cheese
- curd cheese
- damson cheese, damson-cheese
- Danish Blue cheese
- Derby cheese
- Dorset Blue Vinney cheese
- Dorstone cheese
- Double Gloucester cheese
- Dovedale cheese
- Duberry cheese
- Dunlop cheese
- Dutch cheese
- Easy Cheese
- Edam cheese
- Emmental cheese, Emmenthal cheese
- Exmoor Blue cheese
- farmer cheese, farmer's cheese
- feta cheese
- Gloucester cheese
- goat cheese
- Gouda cheese
- government cheese
- Grana Padano cheese
- grated cheese
- green cheese
- Gruyère cheese
- hard cheese
- head-cheese, headcheese, head cheese
- hoop cheese
- Horeb cheese
- human cheese
- Huntsman cheese
- Idiazabal cheese
- Ilchester cheese
- jack cheese
- jalapeño cheese
- Jarlsberg cheese
- Lancashire cheese
- Leicester cheese
- Leidse cheese, Leyden cheese
- lemon cheese
- Liederkranz cheese
- Limburg cheese, Limburger cheese
- Lincolnshire Poacher cheese
- Lymeswold cheese
- macaroni and cheese, macaroni cheese
- make butter and cheese of
- make cheeses
- Manchego cheese
- Maytag Blue cheese
- monastery cheese
- mousetrap cheese
- mozzarella cheese
- Muenster cheese, Munster cheese, Münster cheese
- Nabulsi cheese
- Neufchâtel cheese
- nipcheese
- Nökkelost cheese
- Oaxaca cheese
- Oka cheese
- Parmesan cheese
- pepper jack cheese
- pick-cheese
- pimento cheese
- Pinconning cheese
- pizza cheese
- pot cheese
- processed cheese
- Provel cheese
- rat cheese
- Red Leicester cheese
- Red Windsor cheese
- ricotta cheese
- romano cheese
- ruen cheese
- sage-cheese
- Sage Derby cheese
- Saint-André cheese
- Sakura cheese
- say cheese
- Shropshire Blue cheese
- Single Gloucester cheese
- slip cheese
- smoked cheese
- sour milk cheese
- Stilton cheese
- Stinking Bishop cheese
- store cheese
- string cheese
- Swaledale cheese
- Swiss cheese
- tasty cheese
- Testouri cheese
- Teviotdale cheese
- the Cheeses
- Tilsit cheese, Tilsiter cheese
- tip-cheese
- toad-cheese, toad's cheese
- Trappist cheese
- Tyrolean grey cheese
- Valdeón cheese
- Västerbotten cheese
- Waterloo cheese
- Wensleydale cheese
- White Stilton cheese
- Yunnan cheese
- Zamorano cheese
DescendantsEdit
- Tok Pisin: sis
- Borrowings
- Abenaki: chiz
- Cantonese: 芝士 (zi1 si6-2)
- Coeur d'Alene: chis
- Chichewa: tchizi
- Dhivehi: ޗީޒު (cīzu)
- Fijian: jisi
- Gilbertese: titi
- Igbo: chiz
- Japanese: チーズ (chīzu)
- Korean: 치즈 (chijeu)
- Hakka: 起士 (chhí-sṳ̀)
- Malayalam: ചീസ് (cīsŭ)
- Maori: tīhi
- Mandarin: 起士 (qíshì), 起司 (qǐsī), 芝士 (zhīshì), 吉士 (jíshì)
- Marathi: चीझ (cījh)
- Western Ojibwa: ᒌᐦᐢ (cîhs, jiis) (Saulteaux dialects)
- Sinhalese: චීස් (cīs)
- Swahili: chizi
- Thai: ชีส (chíis)
- Tongan: siisi
- Tswana: tshise
- Wu: 起司 (qi sr)
- Xhosa: itshizi
- Zulu: ushizi
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
- cheese on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Cheese (recreational drug) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- butter
- cream
- milk
- turophile
- yogurt
VerbEdit
cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)
- To prepare curds for making cheese.
- (technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
- (slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.
- 2013, Michael W. Eagle II (lyrics and music), “Degrassi Picture Day”, in Sir Rockabye, performed by Open Mike Eagle; Busdriver, track 1:
- Yeah, a couple homegirls cheese they little faces off / They happy cause they finally got they braces off
Derived termsEdit
InterjectionEdit
cheese!
- (photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.
- Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Though commonly claimed to be a borrowing of Persian چیز (čīz, “thing”), the term does not occur earliest in Anglo-Indian sources, but instead is "well recorded in British and Australian sources from the 1840s onwards".[1]
NounEdit
cheese (uncountable)
- (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
- (slang, dated, British India) The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.
- These cheroots are the real cheese.
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
Etymology 3Edit
Etymology unknown. Possibly an alteration of cease.
VerbEdit
cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)
- (slang) To stop; to refrain from.
- Cheese it! The cops!
- Cheese your patter! (= stop talking, shut up)
- (slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
- All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 4Edit
From cheesy.
VerbEdit
cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)
- (video games) To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter.
- You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.
- (video games) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).