cheese.
A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
Meaning & usage
A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
Any particular variety of cheese.
A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
Money.
In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
A fastball.
A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
Smegma.
Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Latin cāseusbor. Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz Proto-West Germanic *kāsī Old English ċīese Middle English chese English cheese From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Síes (“cheese”), West Frisian tsiis (“cheese”), Dutch kaas (“cheese”), German Low German Kees (“cheese”), German Käse (“cheese”).
To prepare curds for making cheese.
To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
To smile excessively, as for a camera.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Latin cāseusbor. Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz Proto-West Germanic *kāsī Old English ċīese Middle English chese English cheese From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Síes (“cheese”), West Frisian tsiis (“cheese”), Dutch kaas (“cheese”), German Low German Kees (“cheese”), German Käse (“cheese”).
Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.
Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!
Where this word comes from
Perhaps an alteration of cheers.
Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.
These cheroots are the real cheese.
Where this word comes from
Though commonly claimed to be a borrowing of Persian چیز (čiz, “thing”), the term does not occur earliest in Anglo-Indian sources, but instead is "well recorded in British and Australian sources from the 1840s onwards".
To stop; to refrain from.
Cheese it! The cops!
Cheese your patter! (= stop talking, shut up)
To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.
Where this word comes from
Etymology unknown. Possibly an alteration of cease.
The exploitation, or opportunity for exploitation, of an unintentional video game mechanic.
Where this word comes from
From cheesy.
To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.
To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).
Where this word comes from
From cheesy.
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