cheese
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From Middle English chese, from Old English ċēse, ċīese (“cheese”), from Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz (“cheese”), from Latin cāseus (“cheese”), from Proto-Indo-European *kwat- (“to ferment, become sour”). Cognate with West Frisian tsiis (“cheese”), Dutch kaas (“cheese”), German Käse (“cheese”). Also related to Old English hwaþerian (“to roar, foam, surge”), Swedish dialect hvå (“foam”), Latvian kūsāt (“to boil”), Old Church Slavonic (kvasŭ, “leaven; sour drink”), Sanskrit (kváthati, “it boils”).
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cheese (usually 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.
- (uncountable, slang) Money.
- (countable, 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.
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- See also Wikisaurus:cheese
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Cheese on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Cheese (recreational drug) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Cheese (recreational drug)- butter
- cream
- milk
- turophile
- yoghurt
[edit] Verb
cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)
- To prepare curds for making cheese.
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cheese!
- (photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.
- Say cheese! …and there we are!
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Probably from Persian چيز (čīz, “thing”).
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cheese (uncountable)
- (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
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cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)
- (slang) To stop; to refrain from.
- (slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
- All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.
- (gaming, slang) To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter
- And this douchebag decided, "I'm going to cheese because that's all I can do in life."
- (gaming) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games)
- It's not every day you can see someone defend a cheese maneuver with a planetary fortress and win the game without using a single unit.
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