cheese
/t͡ʃiz/ noun, verb, interjection, proper noun
Forms cheeses cheesen cheesing cheesed cheese!
- noun (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
- noun (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
- noun (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
- noun (uncountable, UK) A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
- noun A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
- noun (uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
- noun (uncountable, slang) Money.
- noun (countable, UK) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
- verb To prepare curds for making cheese.
- verb (technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
- verb (slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.
- interjection (photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling. “Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!”
- noun (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
- noun (slang, dated, British India) The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket. “These cheroots are the real cheese.”
- verb (slang) To stop; to refrain from. “Cheese it! The cops!”
- verb (slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off". “All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.”
- noun (gaming) The exploitation, or opportunity for exploitation, of an unintentional video game mechanic.
- verb (Internet slang, gaming, ambitransitive) 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.”
- verb (video games, slang) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
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Antonyms
Etymology
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”).
Perhaps an alteration of cheers.
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".
Etymology unknown. Possibly an alteration of cease.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.
- noun A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed togehter in the form of a cheese.
Etymology [OE. chese, AS. cese, fr. L. caseus, LL. casius. Cf. Casein.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “cheese”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details