Cheddarn.
/ˈtʃɛdə/, U.S. /ˈtʃɛdər/ Cheddar cheese (or contextually Cheddar): see quotations.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > varieties of cheese
goat cheeseOE
green cheesec1390
rowen cheesea1425
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ruen cheese1510
parmesan1538
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Cheshire Cheese1597
eddish-cheese1615
nettle cheese1615
aftermath cheese1631
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Cheddar cheesea1661
rowen1673
parmigianoa1684
raw-milk cheesea1687
fleet cheese1688
sage-cheese1714
Rhode Island cheese1733
Stilton cheese1736
Roquefort cheese1762
American cheese1763
fodder cheese1784
Old Peg1785
blue cheese1787
Dunlop cheese1793
Wiltshire1794
Gloucester1802
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Neufchâtel1814
Limburger cheese1817
Dunlop1818
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Stilton1826
skim dick1827
stracchino cheese1832
Blue Vinney1836
Edam1836
Schabzieger1837
sapsago1846
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mysost1861
napkin cheese1865
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Roquefort1867
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Port Salut1881
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Caerphilly cheese1901
Derby cheese1902
Emmental1902
Liptauer1902
farmer cheese1904
robiola1907
gjetost1908
reblochon1908
scamorza1908
Cabrales1910
Jack1910
pimento cheese1910
mozzarella1911
pimiento cheese1911
Monterey cheese1912
processed cheese1918
Tillamook1918
tvorog1918
anari1919
process cheese1923
Bel Paese1926
pecorino1931
Oka1936
Parmigiano–Reggiano1936
vacherin1936
Monterey Jack1940
Red Leicester1940
demi-sel1946
tomme1946
Danish blue1948
Tilsit1950
St.-Maure1951
Samsoe1953
Havarti1954
paneer1954
taleggio1954
feta1956
St. Paulin1956
bleu cheese1957
Manchego1957
Ilchester1963
Dolcelatte1964
chèvre1965
Chaource1966
Windsor Red1969
halloumi1970
Montrachet1973
Chaumes1976
Lymeswold1981
cambozola1984
yarg1984
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Somerset 18 The worst fault of Chedder Cheese is, they are so few and dear.
1684 A. Behn Bajazet to Gloriana Whose composition was like Cheder-Cheese, (In whose production all the Town agrees).
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Cheddar or Chadder..the most noted place in all England for making large, fine, rich, and pleasant cheese; for which purpose all the milk of the town cows is brought every day into one common room, where proper persons are appointed to receive it, and set down every person's quantity in a book kept for that purpose, which is put all together, and one common cheese made with it.
1879 Echo 18 Oct. 1/5 Fears that the makers of American cheese..would oust our home Cheddars from the position of supremacy they had so long held.
1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 398/1 Cheddar Cheese... The name is now given to any cheese which undergoes the special ‘cheddaring’ process, regardless of where it is made.
Compounds
Cheddar-club n. a club formed by dairies for the purpose of making Cheddar cheese.
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1666 Polit. Ballads (1860) I. 181 As the Cheddar clubs dairy to th' incorporate cheese.
Cheddar letter n. humorous a letter to which a number of persons contribute each a paragraph, as a Cheddar cheese is made by the contributions of several dairies.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > letter written by several persons
Cheddar letter1726
1726 Visct. Bolingbroke Let. 22 Sept. in J. Swift Lett. II. 314 I wrote the other day the first paragraph of that Cheddar letter, which is preparing for you.
Cheddar Pink n. A pink with solitary flowers of a pale rose colour ( Dianthus cæsius), found on the limestone cliffs at Cheddar.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pinks or carnations
gillyflower1517
carnation1538
clove gillyflower1538
incarnation1538
William1538
pink1566
John1572
Indian eye1573
sops-in-wine1573
sweet John1573
sweet-william1573
tuft gillyflower1573
Colmenier1578
small honesty1578
tol-me-neer1578
London tuft1597
maidenly pink1597
mountain pink1597
clove-carnation1605
musk-gillyflower1607
London pride1629
pride of London1629
maiden pink1650
Indian pink1664
Spanish pink1664
pheasant's eye pink1718
flake1727
flame1727
picotee1727
old man's head1731
painted lady1731
piquet1731
China-pink1736
clove1746
wild pink1753
lime-wort1777
matted thrift1792
clove-pink1837
Cheddar Pink1843
Dianthus1849
bunch pink1857
perpetual-flowering carnation1861
cliff pink1863
meadow pink1866
musk carnation1866
Jack1873
wax-pink1891
Malmaison1892
grenadin1904
1843 C. C. Babington Man. Brit. Bot. 41 On limestone cliffs at Cheddar, Som... Cheddar Pink.
1959 Chambers's Encycl. X. 737/1 Cheddar pink (D. gratianopolitanus).
Draft additions June 2020
Cheddar Man n. Palaeontology a fossil human skeleton dated to the Mesolithic period, found in Gough's Cave, Cheddar Gorge, in 1903.
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1914 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 44 257 The side view of the Cheddar man would not, as far as we can tell, have attracted any notice in a modern crowd.
1970 J. Brierley Nat. Hist. Man iii. vi. opp. p. 39 (caption) Skull of Cheddar Man (Homo sapiens) from Gough's Cave, Cheddar, Somerset.
2018 V. Oikkonen Population Genetics & Belonging iii. 110 Scientists at Manchester University used forensic techniques..to re-create the looks of Cheddar Man.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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