cheese
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Old English cēse, cyse, from West Germanic *kāsi, from Latin cāseus. Cognate with West Frisian tsiis, Dutch kaas, German Käse.
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cheese (plural cheese or cheeses)
- (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
- (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
- (uncountable) (slang) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or clichéd, 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. See w:Cheese (recreational drug).
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- See also Wikisaurus:cheese
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to 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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Probably from Persian چيز (čīz) ‘thing’.
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cheese (plural cheeses)
- (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
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to cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)