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cheese
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: ch?z, IPA(key): /t??i?z/
- (General American) IPA(key): /t??iz/
- Rhymes: -i?z
- Homophone: qis
Etymology 1
From Middle English chese, from Old English ??ese, specifically the Anglian form ??se, from Proto-West Germanic *k?s?, borrowed from Latin c?seus. Doublet of queso.
Noun
cheese (countable and uncountable, plural cheeses)
- (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, Britain) A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
- 1807 Nutt, F. (1807). The Complete Confectioner: Or, The Whole Art of Confectionary Made Easy: Containing, Among a Variety of Useful Matter, the Art of Making the Various Kinds of Biscuits, Drops ... as Also the Most Approved Method of Making Cheeses, Puddings, Cakes &c. in 250 Cheap and Fashionable Receipts. The Result of Many Years Experience with the Celebrated Negri and Witten. United Kingdom: reprinted, for Richard Scott and sold at his bookstore, no. 243 Pearl-street.
- p.82-3, No.244. Damson Cheese: “Pick the damsons free from stalks···You may make plum or bullace cheese in the same way···”
- 1807 Nutt, F. (1807). The Complete Confectioner: Or, The Whole Art of Confectionary Made Easy: Containing, Among a Variety of Useful Matter, the Art of Making the Various Kinds of Biscuits, Drops ... as Also the Most Approved Method of Making Cheeses, Puddings, Cakes &c. in 250 Cheap and Fashionable Receipts. The Result of Many Years Experience with the Celebrated Negri and Witten. United Kingdom: reprinted, for Richard Scott and sold at his bookstore, no. 243 Pearl-street.
- A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
- (uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
- (uncountable, slang) Money.
- (countable, Britain) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
- (uncountable, slang, baseball) A fastball.
- (uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
- (vulgar, slang) Smegma.
- (technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
- 2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation
- It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout pattern density.
- 2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation
- A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
- The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) 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.
Synonyms
- (product): See Thesaurus:cheese
- (money): See Thesaurus:money
Antonyms
- (circuitry): fill (“dummy pattern to increase pattern density”)
Hyponyms
- (dairy product): See Thesaurus:cheese
Derived terms
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: sis
- Borrowings
Translations
See also
- cheese on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Cheese (recreational drug) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- butter
- cream
- milk
- turophile
- yogurt
Verb
cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)
- To prepare curds for making cheese.
- (technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
- (slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.
Derived terms
- cheese up
Interjection
cheese!
- (photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.
Derived terms
- say cheese
Descendants
- ? Icelandic: sís
- ? Japanese: ??? (ch?zu)
Translations
Etymology 2
Though commonly claimed to be a borrowing of Persian ???? (??z, “thing”), the term does not occur earliest in Anglo-Indian sources, but instead is "well recorded in British and Australian sources from the 1840s onwards".
Noun
cheese (uncountable)
- (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
- (slang, dated, British India) The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.
Derived terms
- big cheese
- sub-cheese
References
Etymology 3
Etymology unknown. Possibly an alteration of cease.
Verb
cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)
- (slang) To stop; to refrain from.
- (slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
Derived terms
- cheese it
- cheesed off
Etymology 4
From cheesy.
Verb
cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)
- (video games) To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter.
- (video games) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).
Synonyms
- (use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game): rush, zerg
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quicksand
English
Etymology
From Middle English quyksande, from Old English cwecesand (“quicksand”), equivalent to quick (“living”) +? sand. Cognate with Swedish kvicksand (“quicksand”), Icelandic kviksandur, kviksyndi (“quicksand”). More at quick, sand.
Noun
quicksand (countable and uncountable, plural quicksands)
- Wet sand that things readily sink in, often found near rivers or coasts
- My feet were firmly lodged in the quicksand, and the more I struggled the more I sank into it.
- Anything that pulls one down or buries one metaphorically
- The quicksands of youth...
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