a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. lxxiii. 1332 Whey þat is þynne and wattry wiþ chesy [L. caseatis] party synkeþ doun to grounde.

1579 J. Jones Arte preseruing Bodie & Soule i. iv. 7 Eyther thicke and cheesie, or watry and whayey.

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xiv. 121 Their Milk is hurtfull..to the stone and obstructions, because the cheesy part of it is very gross.

1686 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. (ed. 2) 30 The Butter and Cheesy part of Milk.

1729 E. Strother Family Compan. for Health 191 The Mother's Milk..is composed of very different Parts, namely, watery, cheesy, oily, and spiritous ones.

1797 E. Darwin Plan Conduct Female Educ. 107 The cream is the most nourishing part of the milk, and is easier of digestion than the coagulable or cheesy part.

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 81 Like to a maggot in her cheesy sphere.

1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat iv. 46 Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself... It goes through the hamper, and gives a cheesy flavour to everything else there.

1946 W. White Making & Storing Farm Butter for Home Use 7 If the temperature of the cream is above 80°..a fermented or cheesy flavor may be produced.

2013 R. P. Evans Battle of Ampere (2014) vi. 55 How would that be right now—a thick, hot, cheesy slice of pizza?

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike xlviii. 362 But where the rough Artery is dispersed into four Lobes, the Clots were Cheesy [L. grumi caseosi erant], of a middle consistence between a Gristle and a Pumice.

1684 J. Browne Adenochoiradelogia i. xiv. 124 He at length died Consumptive..his Body being opened..very many glandules were found in his Mesentery... These being dissected, nothing but a certain kind of whitish Cream was found therein, hardened into a Caseous or Cheesy substance.

1786 W. Cruickshank Anat. Absorbing Vessels Human Body xiv. 79 In the scrophulous suppuration of these glands, the pus is found cheesy and solid.

1877 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XVI. 783 The beginning of cheesy degeneration.

1986 J. F. Gracey Meat Hygiene (ed. 8) xv. 360/2 Hydatid cysts in the liver and lungs may degenerate to form a cheesy mass which is encapsulated in connective tissue.

2007 S. Ryan et al. Drug Therapy in Rheumatol. Nursing (ed. 2) ii. 127 Trophi [sic]..appear as small hard chalky or cheesy deposits which may discharge and ulcerate.

1757 Monthly Rev. Aug. 104 Dr. Lister mentions the case of a child..whose urine..deposited a white grumous matter, and effused a strong cheesy smell.

1848 Brit. Rec. Obstetr. Med. & Surg. 1 127 In the case of pus no cheesy odour is evolved..and putrefaction is delayed.

1966 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 56 236 This disease has been observed in two siblings,..who..had a persistent odor to their breath and body fluids described as ‘cheesy’.

1986 J. E. Woods tr. P. Süskind Perfume xxxviii. 137 A small man of about thirty, blond, with a bulbous nose, short limbs, flat, cheesy feet..and a stale mouth odour.

2018 @Mz_Dilla 13 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 30 June 2022) Don't you just hate it when someone removes his shoes in the office and his cheesy socks start to boom?

1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xlviii. 211 To see him at Tattersall's sucking his cane, his cheesy hat well down on his nose.

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Cheesy, fine or showy.