| 单词 | rat cheese |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrat cheese rat cheese n. U.S. colloquial Cheddar cheese, typically with an extra strong tangy taste (sometimes considered of an inferior quality and thus suitable for using in traps; cf. rat-trap cheese n. at rat trap n. and adj. Compounds). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > mousetrap cheese mousetrap1650 rat-trap cheese1910 rat cheese1922 1922 L. Baldwin Van Slyke Brides will be Brides in Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 13 Oct. 28/1 [The restaurant] rejoiced in the absurd name ‘The Hole in The Rat Cheese’.] 1922 Z. Akins Greatness i. 41 The young woman asked me..if she could borrow some yellow rat cheese or some eggs or anything you might happen to have. 1995 W. H. Turner Chesapeake Boyhood (1997) 6 We were heading home, perhaps with a small piece of rat cheese,..a piece of delicious salted ‘heck’ fish (haddock), or some ginger snaps. < as lemmas |
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