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cheese1 
[cheez] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, cheesed, chees·ing.
[cheez] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, cheesed, chees·ing. –noun
–verb (used without object)
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food. |
| 2. | a definite mass of this substance, often in the shape of a wheel or cylinder. |
| 3. | something of similar shape or consistency, as a mass of pomace in cider-making. |
| 4. | Informal. partly digested milk curds sometimes spit up by infants. |
| 5. | cheeses, any of several mallows, esp. Malva neglecta, a sprawling,weedy plant having small lavender or white flowers and round, flat, segmented fruits thought to resemble little wheels of cheese. |
| 6. | Slang: Vulgar. smegma. |
| 7. | Metalworking.
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| 8. | a low curtsy. |
| 9. | Informal. (of infants) to spit up partly digested milk curds. |
| 10. | Metalworking. to forge (an ingot or billet) into a cheese. |
[Origin: bef. 1000; ME chese, OE cése (c. OS kāsi, G Käse) < L cāseus]
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cheese2
[cheez] Pronunciation Key
[cheez] Pronunciation Key –verb (used with object), cheesed, chees·ing. Slang.
—Idiom
| 1. | to stop; desist. |
| 2. | cheese it,
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[cheez] Pronunciation Key
[cheez] Pronunciation Key –noun Slang.
| a person or thing that is important or splendid. |
[Origin: 1905–10; perh. < Urdu chīz thing < Pers]
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| cheese 1
(chēz) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Middle English chese, from Old English cȳse, from Germanic *kasjus, from Latin cāseus.] |
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| cheese 2
(chēz) Pronunciation Key
tr.v. cheesed, chees·ing, chees·es Slang To stop. [Origin unknown.] |
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| cheese 3
(chēz) Pronunciation Key
n. Slang An important person. Often used in the phrase big cheese. [Perhaps from Urdu chīz, thing, from Persian, from Old Persian *ciš-ciy, something; see kwo- in Indo-European roots.] |
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cheese
O.E. cyse, from W.Gmc. *kasjus, from L. caseus "cheese," from PIE base *kwat- "to ferment, become sour." Earliest refs. would be to compressed curds of milk used as food; pressed or molded cheeses with rinds are 14c. Fr. fromage is from M.L. formaticum, from L. forma "shape, form, mold." As a photographer's word to make subjects hold a smile, it is attested from 1930, but in a reminiscence of schoolboy days, which suggests an earlier use. Cheeseburger first attested 1938. Cheesecake (c.1440) is first recorded 1934 in slang sense of "photograph of sexy young women." To make cheeses was a schoolgirls' amusement (1835) of wheeling rapidly so one's petticoats blew out in a circle then dropping down so they came to rest inflated and resembling a wheel of cheese; hence, used figuratively for "a deep curtsey."
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| cheese | |
noun | |
| 1. | a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk |
| 2. | erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States [syn: tall mallow] |
verb | |
| 1. | used in the imperative (get away, or stop it); "Cheese it!" |
| 2. | wind onto a cheese; "cheese the yarn" |
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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This
cheese
In addition to the idioms beginning with cheese, also see big cheese.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Cheese
Cheese\, n. [OE. chese, AS. c[=e]se, fr. L. caseus, LL. casius. Cf. Casein.]1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold. 2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese. 3. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia). [Colloq.] 4. A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration. --De Quincey. --Thackeray. Cheese cake, a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. --Prior. Cheese fly (Zo["o]l.), a black dipterous insect (Piophila casei) of which the larv[ae] or maggots, called skippers or hoppers, live in cheese. Cheese mite (Zo["o]l.), a minute mite (Tryoglyhus siro) in cheese and other articles of food. Cheese press, a press used in making cheese, to separate the whey from the curd, and to press the curd into a mold. Cheese rennet (Bot.), a plant of the Madder family (Golium verum, or yellow bedstraw), sometimes used to coagulate milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder. Cheese vat, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and cut or broken, in cheese making.
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cheese
A kind of soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, France; also, any cheese of the same type, wherever made.
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Cheese
(A.S. cese). This word occurs three times in the Authorized Version as the translation of three different Hebrew words: (1.) 1 Sam. 17:18, "ten cheeses;" i.e., ten sections of curd. (2.) 2 Sam. 17:29, "cheese of kine" = perhaps curdled milk of kine. The Vulgate version reads "fat calves." (3.) Job 10:10, curdled milk is meant by the word.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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