cheese eating

English

Noun

cheese eating (uncountable)

1. (often used attributively) The act of ratting on or informing.
   • 2007, Carl B. Klockars, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, M.R. Haberfeld, Enhancing Police Integrity, page 71:

     This officer's cheese eating had gone as far as to earn him a position on the "Wall of Cheese" that a widely-respected veteran police officer created and maintained in his office some time before our study.

   • 2010, Daniell Harshaw, Bulletproof Love, page 184:

     He would be killed on sight like the cheese eating rat he was.

   • 2014, No More Games:

     She wondered how much he knew about what she was doing because there was not telling what his cheese eating cousin Bo told him.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheese,‎ eating.
   • 1992, Anna Marie Roberts, Sensory Attributes and Preferences for Cheddar Cheese, page 124:

     To do this, we need information about you and your cheese eating habits.

Adjective

cheese eating (comparative more cheese eating, superlative most cheese eating)

1. Alternative form of cheese-eating
   • 2014, William T. Stewart, Dark South: And Other Strange Tales, page 375:

     Wiggins had a cheese eating grin on his face.