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cheesecake

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English chesekake; equivalent to cheese +‎ cake. Compare chess cake.

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Noun

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cheesecake (countable and uncountable, plural cheesecakes)

  1. (countable and uncountable) A pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs and milk on a crunchy base.
    Cheesecake is an especially delicious dessert.
  2. (countable and uncountable, obsolete) A pie made of cream, eggs and milk (somewhat resembling the modern American chess cake).[3]
  3. (uncountable) Imagery of scantily clad, sexually attractive young women; pin-ups.
    Synonym: leg art
    Company policy forbids displaying cheesecake in the locker rooms.
    • 1958, A.A.Fair, Count of 9, page 14:
      She was turning back toward the cameraman when she caught the pose of the filing clerk who was sitting on the corner of the desk with her skirt over her knees, her toes pointed down so that her crossed legs showed to advantage.
      "Now what the hell are you doing sitting there sticking that nylon out at the camera?" Bertha asked.
      (...) A man who had been standing over behind the filing case came out and said, "We're going to need cheesecake, Mrs. Cool. If we don't have cheesecake, the papers won't publish it."

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    “Principles of Engliſh Pronunciation.” in John Walker, A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary […] , London: Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinſon, Paternoſter Row; and T. Cadell, in the Strand, 1791, →OCLC, page 30.
  2. ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 4.35, page 124.
  3. ^ “chess cake”, in Dictionary of American Regional English‎[2], University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019, Quarterly Update 17.

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English cheesecake.

Pronunciation

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cheesecake f (invariable)

  1. cheesecake (type of pie)

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English cheesecake.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌ(t)ʃisˈkej.ki/ [ˌ(t)ʃisˈkeɪ̯.ki], /ˌ(t)ʃisˈkejk/ [ˌ(t)ʃisˈkeɪ̯k]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˌ(t)ʃiʃˈkej.ki/ [ˌ(t)ʃiʃˈkeɪ̯.ki], /ˌ(t)ʃiʃˈkejk/ [ˌ(t)ʃiʃˈkeɪ̯k]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌ(t)ʃisˈkejk/ [ˌ(t)ʃisˈkeɪ̯k], /ˌ(t)ʃisˈkej.ki/ [ˌ(t)ʃisˈkeɪ̯.ki]

Noun

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cheesecake m (plural cheesecakes)

  1. cheesecake (type of pie)
    Synonym: bolo de queijo

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English cheesecake.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cheesecake m (plural cheesecakes)

  1. cheesecake
    Synonym: tarta de queso

Usage notes

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English cheesecake. First attested in the 1970s.[1]

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cheesecake c

  1. A cheesecake; a pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage cheese or cream cheese.
    • 1948 March 27, Expressen‎[3]:
      […] flaska malted milk och en bit cheesecake. Automaterna är också utmärkta […]
      […] bottle of malted milk and a piece of cheesecake. The vending machines are also excellent […]
    • 2006, Peter Englund, Spegelscener‎[4], page 78:
      Efter en sen men utmärkt middag i skymningen – grillad kotlett och hummer, cheesecake till efterrätt – hamnar vi dästa i ett av logementen, och på en dammig TV ställd i en improviserad bokhylla gjord av gamla proviantlådor tittar vi på Ridley Scotts Gladiator.
      After a late but excellent dinner at dusk — grilled chops and lobster, cheesecake for dessert — we finally end up in one of the barracks, and on a dusty TV set in a makeshift bookcase made of old provisions boxes, we watch Ridley Scott's Gladiator.

See also

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  • ostkaka (“curd cake”, literally “cheese cake”)

References

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  1. ^ cheesecake in Svensk ordbok (SO)
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