cheese

English

Cheese for sale in a market.

Pronunciation

• enPR: chēz, , Template:X-SAMPA

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Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) chese, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English (deprecated template usage) ċēse, (deprecated template usage) ċīese, from Template:proto, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) cāseus, from Template:proto. Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] West Frisian (deprecated template usage) tsiis, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch (deprecated template usage) kaas, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German (deprecated template usage) Käse. Also related to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English (deprecated template usage) hwaþerian, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Swedish dialect (deprecated template usage) hvå, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Albanian (deprecated template usage) kos, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latvian (deprecated template usage) kūsāt, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Church Slavonic (deprecated template usage) квасъ (kvasŭ), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sanskrit (deprecated template usage) [script needed] (kváthati).

Noun

cheese (usually uncountable, plural cheeses)

1. Template:uncountable A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
2. Template:countable Any particular variety of cheese.
3. Template:countable A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
4. Template:uncountable That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
5. Template:uncountable Money.
6. Template:countable In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
7. Template:countable A fastball.
8. Template:uncountable A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
9. Template:vulgar Smegma.

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:cheese

Derived terms

terms derived from “cheese”

• Abertam cheese
• American cheese
• apple-cheese
• Añejo 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
• cheese-cement
• cheesecake
• 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-grater
• cheese-fly
• cheese-hake, cheese-heck
• cheese-head
• cheese-headed
• cheese-hoop
• cheese-hopper, cheesehopper
• cheese-knife
• cheese ladder
• cheeseling

• cheese-maggot
• cheese-mite
• cheese-moat
• cheese-mold, cheese-mould
• cheesemonger
• 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
• the Cheeses
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Testouri cheese
• Teviotdale cheese
• Tilsit cheese, Tilsiter cheese
• tip-cheese
• toad-cheese, toad's cheese
• Tyrolean grey cheese
• Västerbotten cheese
• Valdeón cheese
• Waterloo cheese
• Wensleydale cheese
• White Stilton cheese
• Yunnan cheese
• Zamorano cheese

Translations

dairy product

• Afrikaans: kaas
• Albanian:
• Amuzgo: kesò
• Arabic: Template:Arab (júbna) Template:f, Template:Arab (jubn)

  Morocco: Template:tø

• Armenian: պանիր (hy) (panir)
• Aromanian: Template:tø
• Asturian: quesu
• Aymara: kisu
• Azeri: pendir
• Baluchi: Template:tø
• Basque: gazta
• Bavarian: Kaas
• Belarusian: , сыр m (syr)
• Bengali: (ponir)
• Bosnian:
• Breton: keuz , formaj
• Bulgarian: сирене (bg) n (sirene)
• Catalan: formatge m
• Cherokee: ᎤᏅᏗ ᎦᏚᏅ (unvdi gadunv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乾酪／干酪 (gānlào), 干酪 (gānlào), 乳酪 (rǔlào), 奶酪 (nǎilào), 芝士 (zhīshì)

  Min Nan: chhì-juh

• Crimean Tatar: Template:tø, Template:tø
• Croatian:
• Czech: sýr (cs) m
• Dalmatian: Template:tø
• Danish: ost (da) c
• Dutch: kaas (nl) m
• Esperanto:
• Estonian: juust
• Ewe: notsi babla, notsi kpẽke
• Faroese: ostur m
• Fijian: jisi
• Finnish: juusto (fi)
• French: fromage (fr) m
• Friulian: formadi
• Galician: queixo m
• Georgian: ყველი (q‘veli)
• German: Käse , Kas (Bavarian)
• Gilbertese: Template:tø
• Greek: τυρί n (tyrí)

  Ancient: τυρός (tirós)

• Greenlandic:
• Guaraní: kesu
• Hebrew: גְּבִינָה (g'viná) Template:f, גְּבִינָה f (g'viná)
• Hindi:
• Hungarian: sajt (hu)
• Icelandic: ostur (is) m
• Ido: fromajo
• Indonesian:
• Interlingua: caseo
• Irish:
• Italian: formaggio (it) m, cacio (it) m
• Japanese: チーズ (ja) (chiizu), 乾酪 (ja) (かんらく, kanraku)
• Javanese: kèju
• Kazakh: ірімшік (irimşik), , ірімшік (irimşik)
• Kinyarwanda: ifromaje
• Korean: 치즈 (chijeu), 치이즈 (chiijeu)
• Kurdish: ,
• Kyrgyz:
• Latgalian: Template:tø
• Latin: caseus , formaticum Template:n
• Latvian:
• Lithuanian: sūris, sūris m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Low Saxon: Kees
• Luxembourgish: Kéis m
• Macedonian: сирење n (sírenje)
• Malay:
• Malayalam: ചീസ് (cīsŭ)
• Maltese:
• Marathi: चीझ (cījh)
• Mongolian:
• Nahuatl: tlatetzauhtli
• Navajo: géeso
• Neapolitan: caso
• Norman: fronmage
• Norwegian: ost (no) m
• Occitan: formatge m
• Old Church Slavonic: Template:tø
• Old English:
• Old Norse: Template:tø
• Template:trreq
• Ossetian: Template:tø
• Pashto: ,
• Persian: Template:fa-Arab (pænīr), پنیر (panir)
• Polish: ser (pl) m
• Portuguese: queijo (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਪਨੀਰ (panīr)
• Quechua: kisu
• Romanian: brânză f, caș (ro) n, cașcaval (ro) n
• Russian: сыр (syr) , сыр m (syr)
• Scottish Gaelic:
• Serbian:

  Cyrillic: сир

  Roman: sir m

  Roman: sir

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сир m

• Sicilian: furmaggiu
• Sinhalese:
• Slovak: syr m
• Slovene: sir (sl) m
• Somali: jiss, farmaajo
• Sotho: kase, dikase
• Spanish: queso (es) m
• Swahili: ,
• Swedish: ost (sv) c
• Tagalog: keso
• Tajik: панир, панир (panir)
• Tamil: பாலாடைக் கட்டி
• Taos: kàsu’úna
• Tatar: eremçek, sır,
• Telugu: జున్ను (junnu)
• Thai: Template:Thai (noie kăeng), เนยแข็ง (noie kăeng)
• Tok Pisin: sis
• Tongan: siisi
• Tswana: kase, tshise
• Turkish: peynir (tr)
• Turkmen: peýnir
• Ukrainian: сир (syr)
• Urdu: Template:ur-Arab (panīr) , پنیر m (panīr)
• Uyghur: pixlak̡, sir, irimqik
• Uzbek: pishlok, sir, pishlok, sir
• Venetian: formai
• Vietnamese:
• Võro: Template:tø
• Welsh:
• West Frisian: tsiis
• Xhosa: itshizi
• Yiddish: קעז (kez)
• Yucatec Maya: Template:tø
• Zulu: ushisi

countable: any particular variety of cheese

• Danish: ost (da) c
• Estonian: juust
• Finnish: juusto (fi)
• French: fromage m
• Greek: τυρί (tirí) Template:n
• Macedonian: сирење n (sírenje)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian: ost (no) m
• Pashto:
• Somali: farmaajo
• Sotho: ditjhese, tjhese
• Swahili: ,
• Swedish: ost (sv) c

slang: money

• Czech: chechtáky pl, prachy, love
• Finnish: hillo (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: fric (fr) m

slang: fastball in baseball

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

• cheese on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cheese (recreational drug) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• butter
• cream
• milk
• turophile
• yogurt

Verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present chees, present participle es, simple past and past participle cheesed)

1. To prepare curds for making cheese.

Interjection

cheese!

1. Template:photography Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.

   Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!

Translations

said while being photographed

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 茄子 (qiézi)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Finnish: (no one equivalent)

Etymology 2

Probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian (deprecated template usage) چيز (čīz).

Noun

cheese (uncountable)

1. Template:slang Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.

Derived terms

• big cheese
• sub-cheese

Etymology 3

(deprecated use of |lang= parameter) (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

cheese (third-person singular simple present chees, present participle es, simple past and past participle cheesed)

1. Template:slang To stop; to refrain from.
2. Template:slang To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".

   All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.

3. Template:gaming 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."

4. Template: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.

Derived terms

• cheese it
• cheesed off