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cheese

1  [cheez] noun, verb, cheesed, chees⋅ing.
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–noun
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.
a. a transverse section cut from an ingot, as for making into a tire.
b. an ingot or billet made into a convex, circular form by blows at the ends.
8. a low curtsy.
–verb (used without object)
9. Informal. (of infants) to spit up partly digested milk curds.
–verb (used with object)
10. Metalworking. to forge (an ingot or billet) into a cheese.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME chese, OE cēse (c. OS kāsi, G Käse) < L cāseus
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cheese

2  [cheez]
–verb (used with object), cheesed, chees⋅ing. Slang.
1. to stop; desist.
—Idiom
2. cheese it,
a. look out!
b. run away!
Origin:
1805–15; perh. alter. of cease

cheese

3  [cheez]
–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)   
n.  

    1. A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk, often seasoned and aged.

    2. A molded mass of this substance.

  2. Something resembling this substance in shape or consistency.


[Middle English chese, from Old English cȳse, from Germanic *kasjus, from Latin cāseus.]
cheese 2   (chēz)   
tr.v.   cheesed, chees·ing, chees·es Slang
To stop.

[Origin unknown.]
cheese 3   (chēz)   
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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
cheese

  1. n.
    vomit. : There's cheese on the sidewalk. Look out!
  2. in.
    to empty one's stomach; to vomit. : Somebody cheesed on the sidewalk.
  3. in.
    to smile, as for a photographer who asks you to say cheese when a picture is taken. : Why are you cheesing? Did something good happen.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

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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Idioms & Phrases

cheese

In addition to the idioms beginning with cheese, also see big cheese.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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