cheese

English

/t͡ʃiːz/, /t͡ʃiz/

noun
Definitions
  • (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) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
  • (uncountable) Money.
  • (countable) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
  • (uncountable) A fastball.
  • (uncountable) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
  • (vulgar) Smegma.
  • (technology) 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 the () 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.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English chese inherited from Old English ċīese inherited from *kāsī derived from Latin cāseus (cheese).

Origin

Latin

cāseus

Gloss

cheese

Concept
Semantic Field

Food and drink

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

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