From en.wiktionary.org:
[Cheese]
** English
[wp]
*** Pronunciation
- [chēz] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], from [en], specifically the Anglian form [ang], from [en],
borrowed from [en]. [en].
Cognate with [stq], [fy], [nl], [nds-de], [de].
**** Noun
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1. [en] [en] A dairy product made from curdle d or culture d milk .
2. [en] Any particular variety of cheese.
3. [en] A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
4. * [en]
5. [en] A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly )
6. * 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._
7. *: p.82-3, No.244. Damson CHEESE : “Pick the damsons free from stalks···You may make plum or bullace CHEESE in the same way···”
8. A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
9. [en] That which is melodramatic , overly emotional , or cliché , i.e. cheesy .
10. * [en]
11. * [ 1=en]
12. [en] [en] Money .
13. [en] In skittles , the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
14. [en] A fastball .
15. [en] A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
16. [en] Smegma .
17. [en] Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
18. * 2006 , US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation
19. *: 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.
20. A mass of pomace , or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
21. * [en]
22. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of [dwarf mallow] ( [Malva rotundifolia] ) or marshmallow ( [Althaea officinalis] ).
23. 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.
24. * [en]
25. * [en]
26. * [en]
***** Synonyms
- [product] [en]
- [money] [en]
***** Antonyms
- [circuitry] [en]
***** Hyponyms
- [dairy product] [en]
***** Derived terms
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cheese|apple cheese|cheese fries|cheese pizza|goat's-milk cheese|suck
cheese|Šar cheese |a little bit of bread and no cheese |American cheese|cheese
out|cheese scoop|corn cheese|Jack cheese |apple-cheese|cheese toastie|cheese
with your wine|cheese trier|cheese wiener |Añejo
cheese|chaffle|cheesable|cheeseball|cheesebox|cheesedick|Cheesefare|cheesefest|cheesehamburger|cheesehead|cheeselep|cheeseless|cheeselicious|cheeselike|cheesemaking|cheeseman|cheesepare|cheesesteak|cheesetastic|cheesevat|cheeseware|cheeseweed|cheesewich|cheesewoman|cheesewright|cheesology|cheesymite
scroll|chessel|Cheswick|Chiswick|dickcheese|Eurocheese|Keswick|noncheese|pickcheese|soycheese
|Asiago cheese|cheese in a can|fresh cheese |basket cheese |<!--"big cheese"
does not belong in this list: see below--> |bleu cheese<!--sic--> |blue
cheese|nacho cheese |Bonchester cheese |bread and cheese |brick cheese |brined
cheese |Brussels' cheese |Buxton Blue cheese |Cabrales cheese |Caerphilly
cheese |Caithness cheese |Camembert cheese |cauliflower cheese |chalk and
cheese |Chaumes cheese |Cheddar cheese |cheese and bread |cheese-bail
|cheeseboard |cheese-board |cheese board |cheese-borer |cheese-bowl
|cheese-box |cheese-bug |cheeseburger |cheese-cement |cheesecake |cheesecloth
|cheese cloth |cheese-clout |cheese-cratch |cheese-crate |cheese curds
|cheesecutter |cheese-cutter |cheesed |cheesed off |cheese dip |cheese dish
|cheese down |cheese fingers |cheese fly |cheese grater |cheese-hake
|cheese-head |cheese-headed |cheese-heck |cheese-hoop |cheesehopper
|cheese-hopper |cheese-knife |cheese ladder |cheeseling |cheese-maggot
|cheesemaker |cheesemeister |cheese mite |cheese-moat |cheese-mold
|cheese-mould |cheesemonger |cheesen |cheese off |cheese-pale |cheese-parer
|cheeseparing |cheese-paring |cheese-plate |cheese powder |cheese-press
|cheeser |cheese-rack |cheese rack |cheese-ramekin |cheese-rennet |cheese-room
|cheese-running |cheesery |the Cheeses |cheese-scoop |cheese single |cheese
skipper |cheese slaw |cheese slicer |cheese spread |cheese straw
|cheese-taster |cheese-toaster |cheese-tub |cheese-vat |cheese-water |Cheese
Week |cheesewire |cheesewood |cheese-wring |cheesine |cheesing |cheesy |cheeze
|Cheshire cheese |Chevington cheese |chèvre cheese |Chihuahua cheese |cock
cheese |Colby cheese |Colby-Jack cheese |Coon cheese |Cornish Yarg cheese
|cotija cheese |cottage cheese |Cougar Gold cheese |cream-cheese |cream cheese
|Criollo cheese |Cuba cheese |curd cheese |damson-cheese |damson cheese
|Danish Blue cheese |Derby cheese |Dorset Blue Vinney cheese |Dorstone cheese
|Double Gloucester cheese |Dovedale cheese |Duberry cheese |Dunlop cheese
|Dutch cheese |吴语: Easy Cheese |Edam cheese |Emmental cheese |Emmenthal cheese
|Exmoor Blue cheese |farmer cheese |farmer's cheese |feta cheese |Gloucester
cheese |goat cheese |Gouda cheese |government cheese |grated cheese |green
cheese |Gruyère cheese |hard cheese |headcheese |head-cheese |head cheese
|hoop cheese |Horeb cheese |human cheese |Huntsman cheese |Idiazabal cheese
|Ilchester cheese |jack cheese |jalapeño cheese |Jarlsberg cheese |Lancashire
cheese |Leicester cheese |Leidse cheese |Leyden cheese |lemon cheese
|Liederkranz cheese |Limburg cheese |Limburger cheese |Lincolnshire Poacher
cheese |Lymeswold cheese |macaroni and cheese |macaroni cheese |make butter
and cheese of |make cheeses |Manchego cheese |Maytag Blue cheese |monastery
cheese |mousetrap cheese |mozzarella cheese |Muenster cheese |Munster cheese
|Münster cheese |Nabulsi cheese |Neufchâtel cheese |nipcheese |Nökkelost
cheese |Oaxaca cheese |Oka cheese |Parmesan cheese |pepper jack cheese
|pick-cheese |pimento cheese |Pinconning cheese |pizza cheese |pork cheese
|pot cheese |processed cheese |Provel cheese |rat cheese |Red Leicester cheese
|Red Windsor cheese |ricotta cheese |romano cheese |ruen cheese |sage-cheese
|Sage Derby cheese |Saint-André cheese |Sakura cheese |say cheese |Shropshire
Blue cheese |Single Gloucester cheese |slip cheese |smoked cheese |sour milk
cheese |Stilton cheese |Stinking Bishop cheese |store cheese |string cheese
|Swaledale cheese |Swiss cheese |tasty cheese |Testouri cheese |Teviotdale
cheese |Tilsit cheese |Tilsiter cheese |tip-cheese |toad-cheese |toad's cheese
|Trappist cheese |Tyrolean grey cheese |Västerbotten cheese |Valdeón cheese
|Waterloo cheese |Wensleydale cheese |White Stilton cheese |Yunnan cheese
|Zamorano cheese |aerosol cheese|beer cheese|bread-and-cheese|brown
cheese|canned cheese|chalk for cheese|Chanco cheese|cheese and rice|cheese
ball|cheese box|cheese bus|cheese button|cheese coney|cheese crisp|cheese
crystal|cheese curl|cheese cutter|cheese dog|cheese doodle|cheese dream|cheese
eater|cheese eating|cheese food|cheese kettle|cheese knife|cheese
monkey|cheese on toast|cheese paper|cheese puff|cheese pull|cheese
rennet|cheese roll|cheese rolling|cheese sauce|cheese stick|cheese
syndrome|cheese tea|cheese wire|cheese with that
whine|cheese-eater|cheese-eating|cheese-eating surrender monkey|cheese-eating
surrender monkeys|chili cheese|chips and cheese|cock-cheese|cottage cheese
ass|Creole cream cheese|cup cheese|cut the cheese|dick cheese|dick-cheese|Feta
cheese|fetta cheese|Fetta cheese|filled cheese|frog cheese|goat's
cheese|goat's milk cheese|granular cheese|grilled cheese|groaning cheese|knob
cheese|like cheese at fourpence|mac 'n' cheese|mac and cheese|mac'n
cheese|macaroni-and-cheese|maggot cheese|make the cheese more binding|marble
cheese|mite cheese|mountain cheese|Olomouc cheese|plastic cheese|pub
cheese|quince cheese|rat-trap cheese|soft cheese|spray cheese|squeaky
cheese|stirred curd cheese|stirred-curd cheese|Swiss cheese plant|toasted
cheese|toe cheese|unripened cheese|white cheese polypore|Yankee cheese|Yankee
cheese-box|yoghurt cheese}}
***** Descendants
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Borrowings
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***** Translations
[dairy product]{{multitrans|data=
- Abkhaz: [ab]
- Adyghe: [ady] , [ady] [Proto-Circassian] , [ady] [Shapsug]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am] , [am]
- Apache:
- Arabic: [ar]
- Aragonese: [an]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup] , [rup]
- Assamese: [as]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Aymara: [ay]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Baluchi: [bal]
- Banyumasan: [map-bms]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Bavarian: [bar] , [bar]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Bislama: [bi]
- Breton: [br] , [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Buryat: [bua] , [bua]
- Carpathian Rusyn: [rue]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Cheyenne: [chy]
- Chichewa: [ny]
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: [cv]
- Classical Syriac: [syc]
- Coptic:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Corsican: [co] , [co]
- Crimean Tatar: [crh] , [crh]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
- Danish: [da]
- Dhivehi: [dv]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Dzongkha: [dz] , [dz]
- Elfdalian: [ovd]
- Emilian: [egl] [Reggio] , [egl] [Modena]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et] , [et]
- Eteocretan: [ecr]
- Ewe: [ee] , [ee]
- Extremaduran: [ext]
- Fala: [fax] , [fax]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Fijian: [fj]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Franco-Provençal: [frp] , [frp]
- French: [fr]
- Frisian:
- Friulian: [fur]
- Fula:
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Gallo: [roa-gal]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Gilbertese: [gil]
- Greek: [el]
- Greenlandic: [kl]
- Guaraní: [Closed Guarani] [gn] , [Jopara] [gn]
- Guerrero Amuzgo: [amu]
- Gujarati: [gu] , [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hausa: [ha]
- Hawaiian: [haw] , [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Igbo: [ig]
- Ilocano: [ilo]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh] , [izh]
- Ingush: [inh]
- Interlingua: [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Istriot: [ist]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Kabardian: [kbd]
- Kabyle: [kab]
- Kalmyk: [xal]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kapampangan: [pam]
- Karachay-Balkar: [krc] , [krc]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kumyk: [kum]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky]
- Ladin:
- Ladino: [lad]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo] , [lo]
- Latgalian: [ltg]
- Latin: [la] ; [medieval] [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Laz: [lzz]
- Lezgi: [lez]
- Limburgish: [li]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Lombard: [lmo] , [lmo] , [lmo]
- Low German:
- Luganda: [lg]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maithili: [mai]
- Malagasy: [mg]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml] , [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manchu: [mnc]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mari:
- Mariupol Greek: [grk-mar]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Minangkabau: [min]
- Mingrelian: [xmf]
- Mirandese: [mwl]
- Mòcheno: [mhn]
- Mongolian:
- Nahuatl: [nah]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Neapolitan: [nap] , [nap]
- Nepali: [ne]
- Norman: [nrf] [Jersey] , [nrf] [Guernsey] , [nrf] [Sark]
- Northern Sami: [se]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Odia: [or]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old East Slavic: [orv]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old French: [fro]
- Old High German: [goh]
- Old Norse: [non]
- Old Ruthenian: [zle-ort] , [zle-ort]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk]
- Papiamentu: [pap]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps]
- Persian:
- Piedmontese: [pms] , [pms]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Quechua: [qu] , [qu]
- Romagnol: [rgn] , [rgn] , [rgn]
- Romani: [rom]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] [Rumantsch Grischun] , [rm] [Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran] , [rm] [Puter, Vallader]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] [quark] , [ru]
- Rwanda-Rundi: [rw] , [rw]
- Salar: [slr]
- Samogitian: [sgs]
- Sardinian: [sc]
- Scots: [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Seri: [sei]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn] , [scn]
- Sindhi: [sd]
- Sinhalese: [si] , [si]
- Skolt Sami: [sms]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Somali: [so] , [so]
- Sorbian:
- Sotho: [st] , [st]
- Southern Altai: [alt] , [alt] [Teleut] , [alt] , [alt] , [alt]
- Southern Bai: [bfs]
- Spanish: [es]
- Svan: [sva]
- Swahili: [sw] , [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tabasaran: [tab]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Taos: [twf]
- Tarantino: [roa-tar]
- Tarifit: [rif]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Tausug: [tsg] [Philippines] , [tsg] [Malaysia, Indonesia ]
- Telugu: [te]
- Tetum: [tet]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo] , [bo] , [bo]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi]
- Tongan: [to]
- Tswana: [tn] , [tn]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Tuvan: [tyv]
- Udmurt: [udm]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug] , [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec]
- Veps: [vep]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
- Vilamovian: [wym]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Võro: [vro]
- Votic: [vot]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Western Yugur: [ybe] , [ybe]
- Wolof: [wo]
- Xhosa: [xh]
- Yaghnobi: [yai]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yoruba: [yo]
- Yucatec Maya: [yua]
- Zazaki: [zza]
- Zulu: [zu]
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[countable: any particular variety of cheese]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Manx: [gv]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Old English: [ang]
- Old French: [fro]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Somali: [so]
- Sotho: [st] , [st]
- Swahili: [sw] , [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
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[slang: money]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Italian: [it]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
[trans-bottom]
[slang: fastball in baseball] }} [trans-bottom]
***** See also
- [pedia]
- [Cheese (recreational drug)]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To prepare curds for making cheese.
2. [en] To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
3. [en] To smile excessively, as for a camera.
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
***** Derived terms
- [en]
*** Etymology 2
Perhaps an alteration of [en].
**** Interjection
[head=cheese!]
1. [en] [Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.]
***** Derived terms
- [en]
***** Descendants
- [is]
- [ja]
- [ko]
***** Translations
[said while being photographed]{{multitrans|data=
- Basque: [eu]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
}} [trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 3
Though commonly claimed to be a borrowing of [en], the term does not occur
earliest in Anglo-Indian sources, but instead is "well recorded in British and
Australian sources from the 1840s onwards".[1]
**** Noun
[-]
1. [en] Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
2. [en] The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket .
***** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
**** References
References:
[1]. James Lambert, 2018, 'Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles' _World Englishes_ Vol. 37, page 255. see https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12291
*** Etymology 4
[en]. Possibly an alteration of [en].
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To stop; to refrain from.
2. [en] To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
***** Derived terms
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 5
From [en].
**** Noun
[-]
1. [en] The exploitation, or opportunity for exploitation, of an unintentional video game mechanic .
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. [en] 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] [en] , [en]
- [en]
[en]
** French
*** Pronunciation
- [tchize]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [fr] [fr]
** Middle English
*** Etymology 1
**** Noun
[enm]
1. [enm]
*** Etymology 2
**** Verb
[enm]
1. [enm]