the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food.
a definite mass of this substance, often in the shape of a wheel or cylinder.
something of similar shape or consistency, as a mass of pomace in cider-making.
Informal. partly digested milk curds sometimes spit up by infants.
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.
Slang: Vulgar. smegma.
Metalworking.
a transverse section cut from an ingot, as for making into a tire.
an ingot or billet made into a convex, circular form by blows at the ends.
a low curtsy.
verb (used without object),cheesed,chees·ing.
Informal. (of infants) to spit up partly digested milk curds.
verb (used with object),cheesed,chees·ing.
(in a game, especially a video game) to win (a battle round) by using a strategy that requires minimal skill and knowledge or that exploits a glitch or flaw in game design: He cheesed the fight by trapping his enemy in the environment and attacking without taking damage.
Metalworking. to forge (an ingot or billet) into a cheese.
Idioms for cheese
cut the cheese, Slang. to expel gas from the stomach and bowels through the anus.
Origin of cheese
1
First recorded before 1000; Middle English chese, Old English cēse (cognate with Old Saxon and Old High German kāsi, German Käse ), from Germanic kasjus, from Latin cāseus
First recorded in 1805–15; perhaps alteration of cease
Definition for cheese (3 of 3)
cheese3
[ cheez ]
/ tʃiz /
nounSlang.
big cheese.
Slang. the cheese,
a person or thing that is splendid or first-rate.
something that is exactly what is wanted or required.
Origin of cheese
3
First recorded in1835–40 for def. 2; 1895–1900 for def. 1; from Urdu chīz “thing, valuable thing,” from Persian cīz, from Old Persian cish(-ciy) “(some)thing”
Digging back into these old cookbooks is an opportunity to eschew the fatphobic, classist expectations that govern what is “good” and “bad” food and just eat the damn fake cheese.
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Every public-health measure to limit the spread of a virus “is like a layer of Swiss cheese,” Blaisdell says.
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It’s the stacking of “multiple layers of cheese on top of each other that close those holes,” she says.
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“Every public health layer is like a layer of Swiss cheese with a hole in it,” Blaisdell says.
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Mixing meat and dairy is a kosher rule-breaker, so they switched the cheese for potatoes.
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Players stopped downing chili dogs or cheese fries before games.
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Even more damnably, Mother Courage has the chance to save her son Swiss Cheese from the firing squad by paying a ransom.
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