cheddar
Often Cheddar .Also called cheddar cheese . a hard, smooth-textured cheese, made usually from the whole milk of cows and varying in color from white to deep yellow and in flavor from mild to sharp as it ages.
Slang. money: The monthly grand prize is $200, and the yearly grand prize is $1,000—that's a lot of cheddar.
Origin of cheddar
1Other words from cheddar
- ched·dar·y, adjective
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How to use cheddar in a sentence
The English also pour port into Stilton, and sundry other wines and liquors into Cheddars and such.
The Complete Book of Cheese | Robert Carlton BrownWiltshire cheese, in the form of “Wilts truckles,” may be described as small Cheddars, the weight being usually about 16 ℔.
British Dictionary definitions for Cheddar
/ (ˈtʃɛdə) /
(sometimes not capital) any of several types of smooth hard yellow or whitish cheese
a village in SW England, in N Somerset: situated near Cheddar Gorge, a pass through the Mendip Hills renowned for its stalactitic caverns and rare limestone flora. Pop: 4796 (2001)
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