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cheesed

   [cheezd]
adjective Chiefly British Slang.
disgusted; fed up (usually followed by off).
Origin:
1940–45; origin obscure

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cheese

1   [cheez] noun, verb, cheesed, chees·ing.
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, especially Malva neglecta, a sprawling,weedy plant having small lavender or white flowers and round, flat, segmented fruits thought to resemble little wheels of cheese.
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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.
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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:
before 1000; Middle English chese, Old English cēse (cognate with Old Saxon kāsi, German Käse) < Latin cāseus

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; perhaps alteration of cease
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Main Entry:  cheesed
Part of Speech:  adj
Definition:  See cheesed-off
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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. As a photographer's word to make subjects hold a smile, it is attested from 1930, but
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in a reminiscence of schoolboy days, which suggests an earlier use. 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 definition


  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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