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单词 cheese
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cheesen.1

Brit. /tʃiːz/, U.S. /tʃiz/
Forms: early Old English caese (Kentish), early Old English cise, Old English ces- (in compounds), Old English cese (chiefly non-West Saxon), Old English cesen (plural, rare), Old English cys- (in compounds), Old English (Kentish)–early Middle English cæse, Old English–early Middle English cyse, late Old English cease, late Old English ceose, early Middle English cuse, Middle English chesye, Middle English chise, Middle English chus- (in compounds), Middle English schese, Middle English–1500s ches, Middle English–1500s cheys, Middle English–1500s chiese, Middle English–1600s chese, Middle English– cheese, 1500s chesen (plural), 1500s cheyz, 1500s chys, 1500s–1600s chees, 1500s 1700s chease, 1600s cheess, 1600s shees, 1700s cheis, 1800s chaze (English regional (Berkshire)), 1500s–1600s (1800s English regional (Cheshire)) cheise; also Scottish pre-1700 cheis, pre-1700 chis- (in compounds), pre-1700 chise, pre-1700 scheis.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian zīse (West Frisian tsiis), Middle Dutch cāse, kēse (Dutch kaas, regional (west.) kees), Old Saxon kāsi (Middle Low German kēse), Old High German kāsi (Middle High German kæse, German Käse) < classical Latin cāseus cheese, of unknown origin.Period of borrowing. Although the word is ultimately a borrowing from Latin, it is clearly of very early date in English and is often assumed to have been borrowed on the continent. The existence of the loanword in most of the older West Germanic languages and the high degree of its phonological integration, especially evident in Old English, have sometimes been taken to indicate that borrowing took place at a stage before the various West Germanic languages had become fully differentiated from one another. The assumed early date of borrowing (in the Roman or sub-Roman period) is often connected with the introduction of the making of solid cheese with rennet from the Mediterranean (as opposed to earlier more liquid preparations from sour milk). Phonology in Old English. The Old English forms presuppose the early Old English fronting of ā to ǣ in the stem vowel, with further development to ē in non-West Saxon varieties. The word also shows palatalization and assibilation of the initial velar consonant before the fronted vowel, although this is not regularly reflected in spelling until Middle English. Late West Saxon cȳse is traditionally explained as showing diphthongization of ǣ to ēa after the initial palatal and subsequent i-mutation of ēa to īe (later ȳ ) caused by the i of the ending (thus constituting a test case for the relative chronology of palatal diphthongization and i-mutation), but details of this explanation have been disputed; for a survey of different views see R. M. Hogg Gram. Old Eng. (1992) I. §5.72. In Old English the word usually inflects as a strong masculine (in conformity with the inherited ja -stems); weak inflection is also occasionally attested (compare the rare plural form cēsen ). Notes on senses. In sense 2 with allusion to the similarity in shape of the fruit of this plant and a whole cheese, and perhaps also to the fact that the fruit is edible. Compare German Käslein (1515 in the passage translated in quot. 1527, now regional) and Dutch †keesken (1554 or earlier), both lit. ‘little cheese’, denoting the fruit of the common mallow, and also German Käsepappel (1543), Käsekraut (1561), Dutch †keeskenscruyt (1554), all denoting the plant itself. With sense 6 compare earlier cheesemonger n. 2 and the etymological note at that entry. Sense 7 was treated in O.E.D. Suppl. (1972) as sense 2 of cheese n.2, but this seems unlikely on historical and semantic grounds. In sense 9 and in to say cheese at Phrases 4, apparently arising from the fact that pronunciation of the long vowel sound of this word typically involves retraction of the corners of the mouth, producing an expression resembling a smile. In sense 10 after cheesy adj.1 3.
1.
a. A common food made from the curds of milk pressed into a solid or semi-solid mass, and typically ripened. Also occasionally: a food of this kind made from the whey.The curd is formed by the addition of rennet to milk (esp. cow's milk). It is separated from the whey, or watery part of the milk, before being pressed and ripened. Cheese varies widely in colour, consistency, and taste but is typically pale yellow and relatively firm. (Cf. soft cheese n. at soft adj. Compounds 2a, hard cheese n. 1.)Often with a preceding modifying adjective designating the type of cheese: see cream cheese n., blue cheese n., green cheese n., etc. See also cheddar n., Stilton n., parmesan adj., halloumi n., etc.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun]
cheeseeOE
cassan1567
furmage1568
malahane1656
caz1819
eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 57/1 Formaticus, cese.
OE Ælfric's Colloquy (1991) 22 Insuper et caseum et butirum facio : on þærto & cyse & buteran ic do.
OE Monasteriales Indicia (1996) lxiv. 34 Ðonne þu cyse habban wille, sete þonne þine twa handa togædere bralinga, swilce þu wringan wille.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1131 Þa scyrte ða flescmete & se ceose & se butere.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 53 Þenne þe mon wule tilden his musestoch he bindeð uppon þa swike chese.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 643 Bred an chese, butere and milk.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 21 (MED) Hony, melk, chese.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. v. l. 93 (MED) A weye of essex chese.
a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 123 Hard chese..wille a stomak kepe..open.
c1500 King & Hermit in M. M. Furrow Ten 15th-cent. Comic Poems (1985) 257 Bred and chese forth he brouȝt.
1566 I. A. tr. Pliny Summarie Antiq. sig. G.v Zoroastes liued twentie yeres with cheese without feeling age.
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor v. v. 138 Am I ridden too with a wealch goate? With a peece of toasted cheese?
1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Dviiiv Such necessaries and provisions as are to be made, as of Butter, Cheese, Hering, Wood, Cole, and other whatsoeuer.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 538. ¶3 Such who cou'd indeed bear the Sight of Cheese, but not the Taste.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 126 These sums she has more than doubled, by..dealing in cheese and Welsh flannel.
1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. III. 349 Hung cheese... It is called hung when the curds are tied up in a cloth or net..to get quit of the whey..instead of being put under the press.
1868 Farmers Mag. May 389/1 Both regularity and attention are indispensable to the production of good cheese.
1915 Bull. Michigan State Farmers' Instit. 21 184 The discomfort which sometimes follows the eating of cheese is..usually due to the unsuitable way in which the cheese is eaten.
1978 D. W. Engels Alexander the Great 124 Beef and cheese contain more calories and protein than an equivalent weight of bread.
2008 J. Kelman Kieron Smith, Boy (2009) 95 She opened her message bags and got out the bread and cheese for sandwiches.
b. A mass or cake of this substance, typically in the shape of a small block, wheel, or cylinder, and often having a hard outer layer or rind.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > a cheese
cheeseeOE
kebbuck1493
brickbat cheese1758
truckle1813
truckle-cheese1813
brick cheese1837
wheel1977
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. lxv. 292 Wiþ utwærce genim unsmerigne healfne cyse.
lOE Laws: Rectitudines (Corpus Cambr.) xvi. 451 Cyswyrhtan gebyreð hundred cyse, & þæt heo of wringhwæge buteran macige to hlafordes beode.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xvii. 18 Ten cheeses, þese þou schalt bern to þe tribune.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. vii. l. 268 (MED) Twey grene cheeses.
a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 14250 (MED) A Reuene..Bar a chese with-Inne hys mouht.
1481 R. Cely Let. 16 Oct. in Cely Lett. (1975) 114 I haue a cheys frome my mother to send yow.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. i. f. 55v Twelue barels of meale, with a fewe chieses.
1589 J. Bellot tr. Walter of Henley Bk. Thrift f. 23v The cow of one these three kine shalbe but poore, of the which a man cannot make in two dayes one cheese.
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum xiii. xxv. 1183 The stalkes of some of them are platted into mats, for Country women to lay and dry their new pressed cheeses on.
a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 270 A round large Cheese, of about the bigness of a sale ten peny Cheese, a good fingers breadth thick.
1710 ‘J. Touchwood’ Quixote Redivivus 6 The richness of a Cheese is discovered by the multiplicity of its Mites.
1739 T. Gray Let. 21 Nov. in Corr. (1971) I. 131 Parma… The happy country where huge cheeses grow.
1853 London Q. Rev. Jan. 107/2 A beggar stole the cheese, which set Coleridge expatiating on the superior virtues of brandy.
1892 H. Frith Romance of Water-way iv. in Romance of Engin. 129 The engineer went out, purchased a cheese, and dividing it into two portions said, ‘Here is my model!’
1922 Butter, Cheese & Egg Jrnl. 26 Apr. 34/2 This makes a cheese which is more or less heart shaped and tapers toward the point.
1979 J. van de Wetering Maine Massacre iii. 37 He..felt about in his suitcase. He brought out a cheese and gave it to the sheriff.
2011 J. Hornby Good Food Cookbk. ii. 53 Baking a cheese whole and still in its box is a fantastic way to share it with friends.
c. A particular type of cheese.
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1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xiii. sig. G.iv Spermyse is a chese the which is made with curdes and with the iuce of herbes.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 147v The best Cheeses are counted the Parmasines.
1623 G. Markham Countrey Contentments, or Eng. Huswife (new ed.) i. iv. 186 To make a new milke or morning milk cheese, which is the best Cheese made ordinarily in our kingdome.
a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 271 If this Cheese be rightly made..it will be ready in eight days.
1726 Way to Health & Long Life 31 As Cow Cheese is best, so Goats is Worst, but no Cheese is good but where the Buttry-part is mixed with the Caseous.
1794 Weekly Entertainer 13 Jan. 42 He regales himself with his favourite cheese, which is that of the common single Gloucester.
1850 J. Jackson Treat. on Agric. & Dairy Husbandry 112/1 This cheese is sometimes made less rich by being mixed with skimmed milk.
1880 Cultivator & Country Gentleman 6 May 299/3 The most expensive cheese used in this country is the Roquefort cheese from France.
1919 P. G. Heineman Milk 624 Brie and Isigny are cheeses similar to Camembert cheese.
1974 New York 14 Oct. 94/1 Traveling around the country looking for something to eat, I invariably come across locally produced cheeses, honeys, jams, [etc.].
2004 Independent 26 Nov. i. 3/1 Epoisses de Bourgogne, a cheese so smelly it is banned from being eaten on public transport in France.
2. The disc-like fruit of the common mallow, Malva sylvestris (or, less commonly, of M. rotundifolia), which has been likened to a tiny cheese and can be eaten while immature. Occasionally also (chiefly U.S.): the plant itself.Also with distinguishing word, as fairy cheeses, frog cheese, pick-cheese, etc.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Malvaceae (mallows and allies) > [noun] > fruit of the mallow
cheese1527
pick-cheesea1825
1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon sig. Dijv Water of malva..the beste parte & tyme of his dystyllacyon is the rote and the stalke whan it bereth cheses [Ger. Kesslin] and floures.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xxiv. 581 The stalke [of the great wilde Mallow] is rounde of two or three foote long, thervpon grow the flowers in fashion like to the other, but much smaller, and parted into fiue leaues of a purple carnation colour, after whiche commeth the seede, whiche is rounde and flat, made lyke litle cheeses.]
1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 51 Picking from mallows, sport to please, Each crumpled seed he call'd a cheese.
1868 J. T. Burgess Old Eng. Wild Flowers 110 Children call the circular fruit ‘cheeses’, and French children call them les petits fromageons.
1924 Amer. Botanist 30 105 Malva rotundifolia..known to children as ‘cheeses,’ and ‘pancake-plant’ because of the round flat groups of ovaries which are edible when young.
2007 New Yorker 3 Sept. 88/3 After the coldest night I have ever spent anywhere, below or above the Arctic Circle, we sustained ourselves on wintergreen berries, winter cress, mallow cheeses, wintergreen tea.
3.
a. With modifier. A conserve of the specified fruit or nut, having the consistency of soft cheese. Cf. damson-cheese n. at damson n. Compounds 3.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > preserve > [noun] > cheese
cheese1660
damson-cheesec1803
1660 R. May Accomplisht Cook 267 (heading) To make an Almond Cheese.
1723 J. Nott Cook's & Confectioner's Dict. sig. B3 (heading) Almond Cheese.
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper viii. 214 To make Bullace Cheese. Take your Bullace when they are full ripe, put them into a Pot,..and keep them in a dry Place.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xxi. 565 (heading) Common cherry cheese.
1884 Leisure Hour June 375/1 Apple syrup, quince cheese, candied fruits, were among the delicacies of the age.
1998 Your Garden Oct. 55/4 (caption) Clive donates his quinces to a local lady to make quince cheese.
2004 Time Out 31 Mar. 34/1 The raw flesh is often sucked straight from the fruit... In Goa, it's made into ‘mangada cheese’—similar to ‘quince cheese’.
b. Cider-making. A mass of pomace or crushed apples, pressed or prepared for pressing, typically having the shape of a round cheese.
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1663 S. Taylor Let. 14 July in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1965) II. 83 Instead of this Cheese others use bagges of Hair-cloth.
1671 R. Reed Let. 14 Mar. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1970) VII. 511 I have ye last yeare Two parcells of pipin Cyder. of the one but few bottles and that was ye droppings of the Cheese (for soe we call the Apples when ground & prest).
1755 H. Stafford Treat. Cyder-making iii. 37 The Pummice of the Apples is to be received into a large open-mouth'd vessel, capable of containing as much thereof as is sufficient for one making, or one cheese.
1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms W. Devonshire in Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 324 Cheese, the pile of pomage, in making cider.
1843 F. Falkner in Jrnl. Agric. Soc. 4 ii. 402 The cheese of pommey is then removed, to make way for another charge of the press.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders II. ix. 149. Nearly every farmer kept up a cider-making apparatus and wring-house for his own use, building up the pomace in great straw ‘cheeses’.
1960 R. J. McGinnis Good Old Days 98/2 This stack of prepared pulp is called a ‘cheese’.
1995 J. W. Downes in P. R. Ashurst Production & Packaging Non-carbonated Fruit Juices & Fruit Beverages vii. 202 The press operators, normally two, create a ‘cheese’ of apple mash.
†c. Winemaking. A mass of crushed grapes prepared for pressing. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > mass of grapes in press
cheese1852
1852 R. Buchanan Culture of Grape 28 Boards to..lay on top of the pile of mashed grapes (or ‘cheese’ as cider-makers call it).
1915 Literary Digest 4 Sept. 469/1 The mass of partly crusht grapes, known as ‘must’, goes into large kettles... From this mass of ‘hot must’ are made the ‘cheeses’ that go into the presses.
4. U.S. slang. Money.
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]
silverc825
feec870
pennieseOE
wortheOE
mintOE
scata1122
spense?c1225
spendinga1290
sumc1300
gooda1325
moneya1325
cattlec1330
muckc1330
reasona1382
pecunyc1400
gilt1497
argentc1500
gelta1529
Mammon1539
ale silver1541
scruff1559
the sinews of war1560
sterling1565
lour1567
will-do-all1583
shell1591
trasha1592
quinyie1596
brass1597
pecuniary1604
dust1607
nomisma1614
countera1616
cross and pilea1625
gingerbreada1625
rhinoa1628
cash1646
grig1657
spanker1663
cole1673
goree1699
mopus1699
quid1699
ribbin1699
bustle1763
necessary1772
stuff1775
needfula1777
iron1785
(the) Spanish1788
pecuniar1793
kelter1807
dibs1812
steven1812
pewter1814
brad1819
pogue1819
rent1823
stumpy1828
posh1830
L. S. D.1835
rivetc1835
tin1836
mint sauce1839
nobbins1846
ochre1846
dingbat1848
dough1848
cheese1850
California1851
mali1851
ducat1853
pay dirt1853
boodle?1856
dinero1856
scad1856
the shiny1856
spondulicks1857
rust1858
soap1860
sugar1862
coin1874
filthy1876
wampum1876
ooftish1877
shekel1883
oil1885
oof1885
mon1888
Jack1890
sploshc1890
bees and honey1892
spending-brass1896
stiff1897
mazuma1900
mazoom1901
cabbage1903
lettuce1903
Oscar Asche1905
jingle1906
doubloons1908
kale1912
scratch1914
green1917
oscar1917
snow1925
poke1926
oodle1930
potatos1931
bread1935
moolah1936
acker1939
moo1941
lolly1943
loot1943
poppy1943
mazoola1944
dosh1953
bickies1966
lovely jubbly1990
scrilla1994
1850 ‘N. Buntline’ G'hals of N.Y. xiii. 135 As to the way in which yer emptied my pockets—yes; but not as to the time nor manner when you will restore the cheese!
2003 Y. B. Moore Triple Take ix. 84 You know the dope fiends get desperate if they ain't got the cheese to cop that morning blow, so this nigga would have them doing all kind of sick shit.
2010 ‘Jay-Z’ Decoded i. 50 My hand around her collar, feeding her cheese She said the taste of dollars was shitty so I fed her fifties.
5. An object resembling or likened to a round cheese in shape; spec. a discus or (in later use) a ball used in the game of skittles.
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1855 I. K. Brunel Let. Apr. in R. R. Sellman Life I. K. Brunel (1971) xv. 452 I had endeavoured to scheme some way of welding up ‘cheeses’ or discs.
1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock 131 A dry skittle-ground, where every day..I exercised myself with the wooden ‘cheese’ against the seven and a-half pins.
1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted 218 These balls, or cheeses, as they are generally called, are set in a rack.
1919 S. Paget Sir V. Horsley I. 10 The boys played the nobler form of the game [of skittles], throwing the discus, the big wooden ‘cheese’.
1947 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 51 663/1 These cheeses, which weighed about 500 lb., were the largest forgings that had been made in R.R. 59 at that time.
1954 Gloss. Terms Iron & Steel (B.S.I.) vi. 10 Cheese, a roughly cylindrical forging with convex sides formed by upending ingot or billet lengths between flat tools.
2010 A. Tomlinson Oxf. Dict. Sports Stud. 418 Skittles, a target game in which a projectile such as a ball or bowl—sometimes called a ‘cheese’—is launched at a set of wooden pins.
6. In plural. With the. The (First) Life Guards (see lifeguard n. 1). Cf. cheesemonger n. 2. Now historical.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > named companies, regiments, etc. > [noun] > British
Ulsters1649
Scots Guardsa1675
fusilier1680
guards1682
Scots Dragoons1689
Scots Fusiliers1689
Inniskilling1715
Scots Greys1728
blue1737
Black Watch1739
Oxford blues1766
green linnets1793
Grenadiers1800
slashers1802
the Buffs1806
tartan1817
Gay Gordons1823
cheesemongers1824
Green Jacket1824
The Bays1837
RHA1837
dirty half-hundred1841
die-hard1844
lifeguard1849
cherry-picker1865
lancer-regiment1868
cheeses1877
Territorial Regiment1877
the Sweeps1879
dirty shirts1887
Scottish Rifles1888
shiner1891
Yorkshire1898
imperials1899
Irish guards1902
Hampshires1904
BEF1914
Old Contemptibles1915
contemptibles1917
Tank Corps1917
the Tins1918
skins1928
pioneer corps1939
red devils1943
Blues and Royals1968
U.D.R.1969
1877 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 226 At one period there was a large infusion of men connected with trade. They were in consequence derisively spoken of by their comrades of the Foot Guards as ‘Cheeses’.
1890 Chambers's Jrnl. 19 Apr. 251/2 The old school of officers..sneered at their successors as ‘Cheesemongers’. From this circumstance the regiments acquired the cognomen of the ‘Cheeses’.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 24 Nov. 1/3 More regimental nicknames. That of ‘The Cheeses’ was bestowed on the Life Guards.
2010 R. Burnham & R. Mcguigan Brit. Army against Napoleon iii. 121 (table) Nicknames of the cavalry regiments... The Life Guards. The Cheeses or Cheesemongers.
7.
a. Originally U.S. An important or self-important person; a boss or chief. Frequently more fully in big cheese (also occasionally main cheese).Perhaps attested earlier in quot. 1882 at cheese n.2: see note at that entry.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [noun] > one who is important > one who is self important
bug1536
his nibs1821
panjandrum1825
prima ballerina1923
I AM1926
cheese1965
the mind > emotion > pride > self-importance > [noun] > person
bug1536
bladder1579
God almighty1632
cockalorumc1796
his nibs1821
prima donna1834
fly on the (coach-)wheel1840
high muck-a-muck1856
nobs1877
high muckety-muck1882
muckamuck1883
Pooh Bah1886
prima ballerina1923
I AM1926
muckety-muck1927
Pooter1957
cheese1965
1899 Lima (Ohio) News 10 Nov. The fellow that she wuz stuck on was the main cheese of the play. He was ‘it’—the real hero.
1919 P. G. Wodehouse Their Mutual Child i. iv. 50 The bunch of cheeses ought to have been highly grateful to Mrs. Dingle for her anti-pugilistic prejudices.
1934 R. Chandler in Black Mask July 64 So the big cheese give me the job.
1965 Daily Express 15 Oct. 19/4 As soon as you become to feel a bit of a cheese you become a bad magistrate.
1979 J. Abrahams et al. Airplane! (film shooting script) (O.E.D. Archive) 96 The head man, the top dog, the big cheese.
2011 R. Doetsch Half-past Dawn xiii. 81 If I knew the big cheese was coming down, I would have worn pants.
†b. U.S. the big cheese: wealthy or respectable society. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > [noun]
hereworda1100
famec1290
lose1297
renownc1330
namecouthhead1340
noblessec1350
namec1384
reputationc1390
emprisea1393
renomeea1393
celebrity?c1400
enpressc1400
notec1400
renowneec1430
flavourc1449
honestnessa1450
bruita1470
renome?1473
famosity1535
famousness1548
renownedness1596
celebration1631
rumour1638
notedness1661
noise1670
distinction1699
eminence1702
éclat1742
baya1764
kudos1831
lionhood1833
lionism1835
lionship1837
lionization1841
stardom1865
spotlight1875
réclame1883
stellardom1883
the big cheesea1910
big time1910
star billing1910
starring1913
megastardom1981
the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > wealth and fame
the big cheesea1910
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun]
higheOE
high life?a1518
towna1616
world1618
grand monde1673
society1693
beau monde1712
fine world1740
monde1765
tonc1770
high society1782
fashion1807
all the world1808
society1840
smart set1851
swelldom1854
Fifth Avenue1858
fashionabledom1859
haut monde1864
the big cheesea1910
higlif1911
haute Bohème1925
café society1937
jet set1949
beautiful people1950
1855 ‘L. Savery’ Econ. Illustr. iii. 93 Such children in the streets of a city, only held an equal rank and value with the rats. Both are looked upon as vermin that are eating into the big cheese of society.]
a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Unprofitable Servant in Everybody's Mag. Dec. (1911) 790/1 Del had crawled from some Tenth Avenue basement like a lean rat and had bitten his way into the Big Cheese... He had danced his way into wealth (as you and I view it) and fame in sixteen minutes.
8. colloquial. A whitish secretion of sebaceous glands in the genital area, esp. under the foreskin or the labia of the vulva; smegma. Also with modifying word, as knob-cheese, dick-cheese.
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1927 G. Legman Limerick 161 When he tired of these He lived upon cheese From his prick, which he picked with his nails.
1927 Immortalia xx. 160 Cheese..from..her twat.
1969 K. Tindall Great Heads vii. 109 One of the policemen made me suck him off. It was revolting, all cruddy with cock cheese and still smelling like his wife's gash.
1993 I. Welsh Trainspotting (1994) 213 Dae ye think the army'll huv anything fir me? ah heard Sharon asking ma Auntie Effie... Dae ye think the moon's made oot ay green fuckin knob cheese?
2002 J. Birmingham Off One's Tits 105 You'd have to consider it a privilege to eat a scraping of his dick cheese on a Ritz cracker.
9. A word mouthed or pronounced by a person being photographed, in order to produce a smiling expression. Also (Rugby School): a smile (now rare). Chiefly in the phrase to say cheese: see Phrases 4.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > [noun] > word used to form smile
cheese1930
1930 Notes & Queries 158 119/1 Another slang use of the word ‘cheese’ was in vogue at Rugby School... This was with the meaning ‘smile’.
1964 New Statesman 17 Apr. 612/3 Her deadpan face mouths a tiny ‘Cheese’ as she is pegged..into focus.
10. colloquial (originally U.S.). Music, film, television, etc., that is unsubtle, inauthentic, clichéd, or excessively sentimental. Also: entertainment of this kind that is nevertheless appealing or enjoyable. Cf. corn n.1 3c, schmaltz n. 2, tack n.9
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1990 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Disp. (Nexis) 4 Mar. 4 c My friends and I call that ‘cheese music’—you know, music that's bland, tasteless, schlocky.
1991 Washington Times (Nexis) 3 May e5 You hate to see her submit to such blatant TV cheese.
1996 Entertainm. Weekly 31 May 27/1 The director, with his love of '70s cheese, gave John Travolta back his cool by casting him as Vincent the hitman in Pulp Fiction.
1999 Mixmag Apr. 48/3 Cheese is good, man, if people like dancing to it.
2008 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 8 Feb. pm8 This movie was going well until the story turned into stinky cheese.

Phrases

P1. Scottish. cheese and bread: plain or simple food; the food that is necessary for subsistence. Cf. bread and cheese n.
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c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. K.ivv Better it is, with chese and bread one to fyllThan with great deynte, with anger and yll wyll.
1749 Tale Two Tubs 12 Ev'ry man should have his pay..; Besides strong beer, and cheese and bread.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 223 They'd need o' cheese and bread, I wat, After the lang darg they'd been at.
1946 Evening Tel. & Post (Dundee) 22 July 3/2 Scots, wha toiled on cheese and bread, Scots, wham beer has aften fed.
†P2. after cheese comes nothing and variants: alluding to the custom of serving cheese as the last course of a meal. Obsolete.
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1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 136 After cheese comes nothing.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 354 Courtiers..scrambled for themselves out of Chantery-revenues, as knowing this was the last dish of the last course, and after Chanteries, as after cheese, nothing to be expected.
1680 V. Alsop Mischief Impositions vii. 58 Patience worn to the Stumps, and all Endeavours out of breath; for after Cheese and Canon comes Nothing.
1715 E. Baynard in J. Floyer & E. Baynard Ψυχρολουσια (ed. 4) iv Cold Baths are the Epilogue of the Play, the last Dish of the Feast; for after Cheese comes nothing.
1745 Merry Medley II. 84 Let us that are Butchers Wives go first, For after Meat comes Cheese, but after Cheese comes nothing.
1866 C. Reade Griffith Gaunt vii, in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 229/1 I pridefully walked out before Mistress Davies, the rich cheesemonger's wife... I said ‘Nothing comes after cheese.’
P3. to make (also perform) a cheese [compare French faire des fromages, lit. ‘to make cheeses’ (1839 or earlier in this sense)] : to turn round rapidly and then suddenly sink down so that the petticoats are inflated in the shape of a round cheese. Hence also: to create this effect by curtsying; to curtsy deeply. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > respect or show respect [verb (intransitive)] > bow, kneel, or curtsey
loutc825
abowOE
bowa1000
kneel?a1000
kneec1000
crookc1320
to bow the knee1382
inclinec1390
crouchc1394
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coucha1500
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to make or do courtesy1508
beck1535
to make a (long, low, etc.) leg1548
curtsya1556
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beckon1578
benda1586
humblea1592
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to scrape a leg1602
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to give the stoop1623
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to drop a curtsy1694
salaam1698
boba1794
dip1818
to make (also perform) a cheese1834
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [verb (intransitive)] > girls'game
to make (also perform) a cheese1834
1834 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 26/1 What more reasonable thing could she do than amuse herself with..making cheeses.
1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. xxii. 174 It was such a deep ceremonial curtsey as you never see at present. She and her sister both made these ‘cheeses’ in compliment to the new-comer, and with much stately agility.
1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet II. iv. 85 Spinning round like a school-girl when she makes cheeses.
1883 L. Wingfield Abigel Rowe II. vi. 157 Miss Knight performed a cheese worthy almost of Caroline, and swept away.
1907 M. Sidney Five Little Peppers in Little Brown House v. 116 Phronsie, who always wanted to make cheeses when very happy, would puff out, without a bit of warning, the skirt of her little pink calico gown.
1927 Times 27 Oct. 15/5 The brightly coloured hooped skirts of the women—of the sort that make ‘cheeses’ in curtseying.
P4. to say cheese: to smile for a photograph, typically by saying the word ‘cheese’. Often in imperative. Also in say cheese attributive, designating a smile of this sort.
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1943 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 20 Jan. 9/1 [Ambassador Joseph E. Davies] discovered the formula while having his own picture taken... Just say ‘Cheese’. It's an automatic smile.
1952 Hutchinson (Kansas) News-Herald 8 June 26/1 The picture-taker who believes in shooting his product straight without having the girl say ‘cheese’.
1990 New Age Jrnl. July 18/3 The couples headed for divorce court wore miserable, pasted-on smiles of the ‘say cheese’ variety.
2006 Time Out N.Y. 19 Oct. 115/2 The actors ended by giving thumbs up and wearing ‘say cheese’ smiles.
2011 B. Wiggins Shifting xix. 176 ‘Say “cheese”,’ Mrs. Carpenter said. Before I had a chance to smile, the camera flashed.
P5. bread and cheese: see bread n. Phrases 2. chalk and cheese: see chalk n. 6a. to believe that the moon is made of green cheese: see moon n.1 Phrases 2.

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive and objective.
cheese chandler n. rare
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1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas II. xvi. 45 Mole's uncle, a great cheese-chandler in Cheapside, has lately died, leaving him forty thousand pounds.
1934 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 23 Mar. 6/4 The Derby is a contest for thoroughbreds, but..has been won by a cheese chandler's horse.
cheese cover n.
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1862 Daily Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 3 May (advt.) The best and most economical, perfect and desirable Machine ever invented for cutting Shingles, Box Boards, Cheese Covers, or any thin stuff.
1942 Pop Sci. Monthly Mar. 190/1 The cheese cover is a stock glass bowl.
2001 Hist. & Theory 40 310 They seem to experience the world ‘as if from under a cheese-cover’.
cheese curd n.
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a1567 L. Nowell Vocabularium Saxonicum (1952) 52/1 Cyslyb, cheesecruddes.
1600 R. Armin Foole vpon Foole sig. D1 [He] breakes open the Dairy house, eates and spoyles new cheese-curdes.
1899 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 30 Mar. 7/5 Mrs. Isaac Winchenbach..gives her flock of 12 hens cheese curd, which she makes every morning.
2014 L. Beaulieu Providence & Rhode Island Chef's Table 90 Poutine, a French-Canadian specialty consisting of hand-cut fries topped with cheddar cheese curd, bacon, and gravy.
cheese-factor n. now historical
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1658 A. Houghton Antidote against H. Haggar's Poysonous Pamphlet iii. 26 H. H. went into a Cheese-Factours house, to ordain a Cheese-Factour to the office of a preaching Elder.
1707 London Gaz. No. 4347/4 John Lee..Cheese-Factor.
1892 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 23 Aug. 4/6 Christen, a cheese-factor in Neuleich, West Prussia, was robbed of 17,300 mark.
2012 P. S. Kindstedt Cheese & Culture vii. 173 Cheese factors began to study the women's practices on the farms from which they purchased cheese.
cheese grater n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > grater
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bread grate1452
ginger grate1530
nutmeg-grater1623
bread grater1624
cheese grater1848
1848 B. D. Walsh tr. Homer Iliad in tr. Aristophanes Comedies 143 note With brazen cheesegrater grated cheese.
1932 Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 3 Feb. 2/4 A quick way in which to prepare peel for a cake or pudding is to rub it on the cheese grater.
2014 L. Fuentes Best Homemade Kids' Lunches on Planet vi. 161 Using a cheese grater, shred the butter and add into the bowl.
cheese loft n. now historical
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1574 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1986) (modernized text) III. 110 A chest in the cheese loft.
1629 Inventory Hatfield Priory in Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc. (1889) New Ser. 3 174 In the Cheese Lofte.
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 235 The apple-room, the pear-bin, the cheese-loft..were as familiar..as the dairy.
1908 Engineering 13 Nov. 669/1 The cheese-loft above the boiler was partially wrecked.
1971 Country Life 15 July 141/1 I can remember this kind of relic being consigned to the cheese loft of the farm.
cheese-making n.
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1546 T. Langley in tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke Table Chese makyng.
1756 T. Hale et al. Compl. Body Husbandry x. xxviii. 577 Till the Pasture is come down from its own Rankness, it does not afford Milk fit for Cheese making.
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 162 Process of Cheese Making.
2001 Independent 13 Feb. ii. 6/1 James Aldridge was one of the three heroes in the renaissance of British cheese-making.
cheese-rolling n.
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1903 Genealogical Mag. May 14 Cheese-rolling is one of the most peculiar Whitsuntide customs we have, and is observed at Birdlip, near Cheltenham.
1997 T. Pynchon Mason & Dixon 167 'Twas at the annual cheese-rolling at the parish church in Randwick.
2009 J. Struthers Red Sky at Night 136 Cheese-rolling is a sport, since it involves rolling one large circular cheese down an extremely steep hillside, with lots of people chasing it down the precipitous slope and trying to catch it.
cheese sandwich n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread with spread or filling > [noun] > sandwich > other sandwiches
cheese sandwich1828
bacon sandwich1858
cucumber sandwich1896
club sandwich1903
western sandwich1908
Reuben sandwich1927
poor boy1931
po' boy1932
hero1938
hero sandwich1939
foot-long1941
steak sandwich1941
sub1948
sub sandwich1948
submarine1949
BLT1952
panini1955
tuna sandwich1957
hoagie1967
muffuletta1967
gyro1971
PBJ1971
stotty1971
Philadelphia cheesesteak1977
Philly cheesesteak1982
banh mi1985
1828 ‘M. Dods’ Cook & Housewife's Man. (ed. 3) 317 A Cheese-Sandwich.—Take two-thirds grated Parmesan or Cheshire cheese, and one of butter, and a small proportion of made-mustard; pound them in a mortar; cover slices of bread with a little of this, and over it lay thin slices of ham, or any cured meat; cover with another slice of bread, press them together, and cut this into mouthfuls.
1917 Nation (N.Y.) 19 July 65/1 The man..has no invincible repugnance to a glass of beer and a cheese sandwich on a hot summer's day.
2012 F. Robyn Most Beautiful Thing 35 Are you hungry? Shall I make you a nice cheese sandwich?
cheese scraper n.
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1792 W. Cowper in tr. Homer Iliad & Odyssey (new ed.) II. 625 (note) The cheese-scraper.
1914 N.Y. Produce Rev. & Amer. Creamery 13 May 167/2 An automatic cheese scraper seems less attractive and I prefer the simple revolving round disk (like a potter's table) on which to scrape the cheese.
2008 A. Larkin Eng. Amer. xx. 105 Uncle Magnus..taught me how to swat flies and catapult cheese across the table with the cheese scraper.
cheese shop n.
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1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse iv. v. sig. Kv A Cheese-shop on fire cannot out-stinke him.
1784 J. O'Keeffe Agreeable Surprise (new ed.) ii. i. 16 Not a better filled cheese shop in the Borough than mine.
1892 Lancaster Gaz. 20 Aug. In a cheese shop in Church-street, Preston, the two first abstainers signed the pledge.
2011 N.Y. Times 11 Sept. 78/2 In the cheese shop, I sampled the Braun Swisse Käse varieties of aged cheddar and aged Swiss.
cheese whey n.
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eOE Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) iii. xxxix. 332 Cnua..þa rinda, wyl on cysehwæge, þweah mid & beþe þæt lim.
1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i.ii. f. xxiiv/2 Auicenna sayth ye cheese wheye wyth scammony is good to purge all matier causynge any kynde of Formica.
1753 W. Norford Ess. Gen. Method Treating Cancerous Tumors xiii. 122 Her common Food was Milk and Cheese-Whey.
1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 206/1 Last year we made enough oil from the cheese whey for kitchen lamp use, besides cheese curing.
2014 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) (Nexis) 30 Apr. 19 Wisconsin leads the country in biogas electricity generation, with 45 anaerobic digesters that turn everything from manure, cheese whey, food scraps and yard clippings into renewable energy.
b. attributive, with the sense ‘having cheese as the main ingredient or flavour’, as cheese paste, cheese puff, etc.Recorded earliest in cheesecake n.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 73 Chesekake, ortacius.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Capirotáda A cheesecake or such other meate made of goates milke.
1769 B. Clermont tr. Professed Cook (ed. 2) I. 377 Pâte au Fromage. Cheese-paste.
1842 G. Merle Domest. Dict. & Housekeeper's Man. 87/2 Cheese Omelette. Mix some rasped Parmesan cheese with the eggs.
1852 L. Irving 1000 Receipts 139 (heading) Cheese puffs.
1918 F. R. Lanman Handbk. Recipes Columbus Public Schools 34 (heading) Cheese wafers.
1959 M. K. Khayat & M. C. Keatinge Food from Arab World (1965) 103 Such pastries as..kanafeh (cheese pastry baked in a flat pan and cut in squares).
1989 M. Stewart Martha Stewart's Christmas ix. 130 (caption) Each guest was served a small bowl of cheese grits, hot from the oven.
2002 Time Out N.Y. 20 June 51/1 The piscine promenade..is as much a Surf Avenue fixture as the cyclone and cheese fries.
c. Similative.
cheese-shaped adj.
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1802 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. III. ii. iii. i. 416 Cheese-shaped, a very flattened sphere.
1947 J. G. Crowther & R. Whiddington Sci. at War 48 These problems were solved by designing a rotating aerial and reflector. The latter was cheese-shaped.
2014 B. LAwrence Girls' Gymnastics v. 43 The gymnast stands on a cheese-shaped mat.
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† cheesebail n. [ < cheese n.1 + bail n.2] Obsolete rare = cheese hoop n.
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1730 R. Budgen Passage of Hurricane 2 A Cheesebail is the Hoope that encompasses and gives Form to the Cheese in the Press.
cheese-basket n. (a) a basket containing cheese; (b) a basket used in cheese-making.
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1653 J. Davies tr. C. Sorel Extravagant Shepherd vi. 161 I will present him that shall do best with a basket of flowers, a birds-cage; a cheese-basket [Fr. une esclisse à fromage], or some fine garland.
1898 Boston Cooking-school Mag. Aug. 62/1 The curd..must then..be drained in a cheese basket lined with cheese-cloth.
2015 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 4 Mar. C2 I was in my glory, being surrounded not only by cheese galore, but also cheese baskets.
cheese biscuit n. a savoury biscuit flavoured with cheese or eaten with cheese.
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1827 ‘M. Dods’ Cook & Housewife's Man. (ed. 2) i. 55 A silver bread-basket in the centre, in which rusks or cheese-biscuits are served on a napkin.
1883 S. A. Frost Our New Cook Bk. 299 Cheese Biscuit.—Two ounces of butter, two ounces of flour, two ounces of grated cheese, a little Cayenne, and salt.
2006 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 23 Aug. g14 It didn't detract from the menu: Chicken patties, devilled eggs, cheese biscuits, [etc.].
cheese borer n. an implement used to extract a sample of cheese.
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1746 Brit. Mag. Mar. 12 A strong Iron Screw, something like an Augur or Cheese-borer.
1857 Derbyshire Times 11 Apr. She had marked the cheeses with a knife about two weeks before Christmas last. They had no cheese-borer at the time.
1968 J. G. Davis in S. M. Herschdoerfer Quality Control in Food Industry 140 The drawing of a sample from the cheese..is done..by the use of a cheese borer..which..brings out a cylindrical plug.
cheese box n. (a) a box for cheese, typically cylindrical in shape; (b) U.S. a ship with one or more cylindrical gun turrets (likened in shape to cheese boxes); = monitor n. 4b (now historical).
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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag > for cheese
cheese tub1513
cheese box1855
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > gunboat > floating battery
floating battery1695
pram1715
cheese box1855
monitor1863
1855 Knickerbocker Jan. 14 A cheese-box, used as a tanning-vat.
1862 N.Y. Tribune 10 June Where is the Monitor? We have not heard a word of the little cheese-box since the repulse in James River until yesterday.
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 335 Irreverent Confederates called the hideous-looking vessels cheese-boxes.
1918 N.Y. Produce Rev. & Amer. Creamery 27 Mar. 788/1 Are you finding any difficulty in securing wooden cheese boxes for the coming season?
1936 R. Slaughter in C. L. Perdue et al. Weevils in Wheat (1976) 269 I know the names of all the gunboats... There was the Galena, we called her the old cheese box.
2011 M. Karlin Artisan Cheese Making at Home iv. 167/2 When the cheese is nearing the desired ripeness, transfer it to the traditional wooden cheese box to finish.
cheese-bug n. English regional (south-eastern) a woodlouse; cf. cheslip n.
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1634 T. T. de Mayerne et al. Moffett's Insectorum Theatrum (new ed.) ii. ix. 202 Alijs item in locis Chesbug & Cheslip dicuntur.
1857 J. Cuthill in J. Timbs Year-bk. Facts in Sci. & Art 253 The greatest enemy I have had to encounter..has been the wood-louse, slater, cheese-bug, or pea-bug.
1982 Countryman Spring 179/1 Local names for wood-lice have been pouring in... There are ‘cheese-bobs’ (Surrey/Hants border) and ‘cheese-bugs’ (Surrey).
2016 @mole_valley 16 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Constantly vigilant for cheesebugs, big and small.
† cheese cement n. Obsolete (a kind of) glue made from cheese.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > adhesive > [noun]
gluea1382
size1530
cement1562
solder1582
cementum1617
gluten1639
binder1678
conglutinatora1728
glutin1825
cheese cement1839
agglutinant1844
adhesive1849
stickum1877
stickall1880
stick1891
binding agent1933
tackifier1942
bonding1958
agglomerator1975
1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. lxxxv, in Bulwarke of Defence Whan stone pottes be broken, what is better to glew them againe or make them fast, nothing like the Symunt made of Cheese.]
1839 Mechanics' Mag. 31 Index p. iv/2 Cheese cement, mode of making.
1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Cheese Cement, a kind of glue, particularly serviceable in joining broken china, wood that is exposed to wet, painter's panel boards, &c.
1907 New Internat. Encycl. IV. 416/2 Cheese cement... Take two parts of grated cheese and one of quicklime, in fine powder; beat these together with white of egg to form a paste, and use immediately.
cheese chamber n. now historical a room in which cheeses are dried or stored.
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c1632 T. Fuller Observ. Shires in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 226 Cheshire for the cheesechamber, Northumberland for the colehouse.
1740 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 120 I must now..go see what's doing in the cheese-chamber and the apple-loft.
1826 Housekeeper's Mag. 1 447 The cheese..is washed in warm whey, well dried with a cloth, and placed on a drying bench, where it remains an equal length of time before it is removed to the cheese chamber.
1996 William & Mary Q. 53 74 The Widow Marble still set her cheeses in an upstairs room—the ‘cheese chamber’—of the main house.
cheesecloth n. a type of cloth, thin, light, and loosely woven, used esp. in cheese-making to strain the whey from the curd; (also) a piece of such cloth.Used to make items of clothing, esp. in the 1960s and 1970s.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > cheese-cloth
cheeseclothc1330
cheese clout1373
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > with open texture > other
cheeseclothc1330
c1330 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 518 In Erthening', Cheseclathe, Meles, et Skeles..3s. 2d.
1588 B. Dowe Dairie Bk. Good Huswiues sig. Bv, in T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. (new ed.) Haue warme water readie..to washe the Cherne, other vessels and cheese clothes.
1736 Compl. Family-piece i. ii. 105 Then lay a Cheese-cloth in your lesser Cheese-Fat.
1892 V. L. Kellogg Common Injurious Insects Kansas 66 Wires thrust in the ground..and covered with cheese cloth or netting, do well.
1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft v. 109 Tanks..are best dealt with by screening all openings with a protective wire mesh or even cheese cloth.
1968 R. Bissell How Many Miles to Galena? xi. 136 The kids went back to school and there was a brief shower of..trips to the Stamford Bloomingdale's for shirts, sweaters, dresses, slips, shoes, and stockings made of fish netting, gauze, canvas, cheesecloth.
1988 C. Keatley My Mother said I never Should (1994) ii. 60 Rosie. Hey it's full of clothes... Cheesecloth and flares! Yuck. I didn't know you were a hippy once, Gran.
1996 C. J. Stone Fierce Dancing ii. 27 Everyone else was dressed like a hippie: cheesecloth shirts and flared jeans.
2013 N.Y. Times 9 Oct. (Late ed.) d2/4 Twist the cheesecloth and squeeze the ball to extract as much buttermilk as possible.
† cheese clout n. Obsolete = cheesecloth n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > cheese-cloth
cheeseclothc1330
cheese clout1373
1373 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 577 (MED) Chesecloutes emp. pro vaccaria.
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 303 Cheese vates, cheese clouts and other perticulars.
1887 Scott. Notes & Queries Oct. 76/1 It's awfu' thin, it's nae better than cheese clout.
cheese cracker n. a savoury cracker flavoured with cheese or eaten with cheese.
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1863 Goshen (Indiana) Democrat 13 May Stock..consists, in part of the following articles, viz: Cheese Crackers, [etc.].
1915 Amer. Cookery Feb. 547/1 The newest cheese crackers are..just large enough to put a morsel of bar-le-duc upon.
2000 M. Gayle Turning Thirty xxviii. 117 Feeling even more hungry just from watching her eat, I grabbed a cheese cracker.
† cheese cratch n. Obsolete = cheese rack n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > drying frame
cheeseheck1345
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cheese cratch1586
hake1689
cheese crate1846
1586 Worcs. Inventory in J. West Village Rec. (1962) iv. 113 Item, one salt boxe and one cheese cratch.
1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xxxiv. §346 Shee drieth the cheeses in a chees-cratch, or chees-rack.
1902 Derbyshire Times 22 Mar. Dairy Utensils.—Ulfalava Cream Separator, Barrel Churn (to churn 40lbs), Butter Worker (nearly new), Cheese Cratch and Shelves.
cheese crate n. = cheese rack n.; (also) a crate for transporting cheese.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > drying frame
cheeseheck1345
heck1403
cheese rack1456
cheese cratch1586
hake1689
cheese crate1846
1846 C. Anthon in tr. Virgil Eclogues & Georgics 241 ‘The cheap osier furniture of Celĕus’, i.e. baskets, cheese-crates, &c.
1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 119 Redolent of new wine, of the cheese-crate.
1917 Internat. Rev. Agric. Econ. Nov. 26 Something like 2,000,000 feet of timber are felled and then milled and converted into butter boxes and cheese crates each year.
2004 R. McElrea & D. Harrowfield Polar Castaways 294 The wheelbarrow, improvised from cheese crates, remains in the annex at Cape Evans.
cheese dream n. U.S. a grilled cheese sandwich; (in later use) spec. an open-faced sandwich of this type.
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1899 Ann Arbor Cook Bk. 448 Cheese dreams. Cut thin slices of bread and make cheese sandwiches. Fry in butter in a chafing dish, a light brown on both sides.
1941 N.Y. Times 7 Oct. 20 A smooth, semi-sharp concoction with a rich, firm texture..equally effective in the compiling of a cheese dream or a Welsh rarebit.
2012 G. H. Colt Brothers i. 15 Who got the biggest chicken breast? Who got the biggest piece of bacon on his cheese dream?
cheese fingers n. finger-shaped items of food having cheese as the main ingredient or flavour.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > other pastry articles > [noun]
crisp?c1390
mellinder1604
baby cakea1637
cannelons1733
yule-dough1777
vol-au-vent1828
sausage roll1852
cheese fingers1863
cheese straw1866
horn1908
pig in a blanket1926
brik1938
chin-chin1948
pull-apart1958
fortune cookie1962
feuilleté1970
money bag1993
1863 Lady's Newspaper 21 Feb. 306/3 Cheese fingers.—First make a rich light puff paste, then take some parmesan cheese... Cut the paste into fingers, about six inches in length and one in breadth, bake them quickly and serve them hot.
1948 S. J. Daly Party Fun 97 To make the cheese fingers, toast bread on one side, slice off crusts and divide into inch-wide strips.
2015 J. Van Fleet et al. Fodor's Costa Rica 2015 440 A monster plate of cheese fingers, chicken or beef fajitas, platano, refried beans, and tortillas.
cheese fly n. a small black dipteran fly, Piophila casei, whose larvae (cheese-skippers) can infest cheese and cured meat and fish; also called bacon fly, ham fly; (formerly also) the larva of this.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Piophilidae > piophila casei
cheese fly1817
cheese-hopper1830
1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxii. 284 When about to leap, they do not, like the cheese-fly, erect themselves so as to form an angle with the plane of position.
1986 J. F. Gracey Meat Hygiene (ed. 8) xvi. 417/2 The cheese or ham fly, Piophila casei, lays clusters of eggs in salted or smoked foodstuffs such as hams, or in dried beef or cheese.
2012 Wall St. Jrnl. 28 Jan. s3/4 The larvae of the cheese fly (Piophila casei) are added to the [pecorina sardo] cheese.
cheeseheck n. (also cheesehack) now historical = cheese rack n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > drying frame
cheeseheck1345
heck1403
cheese rack1456
cheese cratch1586
hake1689
cheese crate1846
1345 Manorial Documents in Mod. Philol. (1936) 34 41 (MED) Chushache.
1404 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 20 (MED) j chesehek, ij d.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chasiere, a cheese-hecke; the long and round racke whereon cheese is dried.
1741 A. MacDonald Galick & Eng. Vocab. lxx. 90 Fiodhan, Fáscodair-cáise, a Cheese-fat or Cheese-hack.
1961 M. W. Barley Eng. Farmhouse & Cottage iv. iii. 205 The small cheeses sitting, in row upon row, on the cheeseheck.
cheese hoop n. a hoop, typically made of wood, in which the curd is pressed in cheese-making.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > cheese tub, vat, or mould
cheese vatOE
cheese tub1513
cheese moat1574
moat1577
cheese mould1588
chesford1596
vat1669
cheese hoop1678
chessel1721
cheesebail1730
thrusting-tub1846
hoop1857
1678 in G. F. Dow Probate Rec. Essex County, Mass. (1920) III. 270 Cheese hoope & bord, 2s.
1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Arts & Manuf. 257 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 1) VI Improvement in Machines for cutting and slitting Cheese Hoops.
2012 Y. H. Hui in Y. H. Hui et al. Handbk. Animal-based Fermented Food & Beverage Technol. (ed. 2) iii. xxvii. 457 The curd is placed in a cheese hoop and pressed.
cheese-hopper n. = cheese-skipper n.In quot. 1985 figurative.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Piophilidae > piophila casei
cheese fly1817
cheese-hopper1830
1830 J. Rennie Insect Transformations x. 264 The cheese-hopper is furnished with two horny claw-shaped mandibles, which it uses both for digging into the cheese and for moving itself.
1915 A. Schneider Bacteriol. Methods 140 The cheese ‘hopper’ or ‘skipper’ [is] found in and upon old and overripened cheese and in cheeses which have not been properly screened.
1985 C. Portis Masters of Atlantis ix. 102 There are too many backbiters, cankerworms and cheesehoppers in positions of authority.
2008 D. Facaros & M. Pauls Corsica (new ed.) iv. 57 Kept long enough it [sc. Sartinese cheese] decays into tangy casuminadu or casgiu menu, its texture 'whipped' by live maggots or cheese-hoppers.
cheese house n. a room or building in which cheese is made, dried, or stored.
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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] > for dairy products
dairyc1290
milkhouse1554
cheese house1588
1588 B. Dowe Dairie Bk. Good Huswiues sig. C1, in T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. (new ed.) A more apt place then your Cheese house is to keepe them in, ye cannot haue.
1618 True Relation of Two Strange & Fearefull Accidents sig. A4v The fire began to kindle in a cheese-house ouer his bed-chamber.
1794 J. Stele Ess. Manufacturing Milk into Butter & Cheese 104 Not a few considerable farmers have no other milk nor cheese house than their barn.
1842 Preston Chron. & Lancs. Advertiser 19 Feb. Them as choose their wives in slayin parties, quiltin frolic, and so on instead of the dairies, looms, and cheese house.
1990 Gourmet Sept. 62/2 Her pecorino fresco, produced daily in the Barbi cheese house.
cheese knife n. (a) a knife or other implement for cutting cheese; (b) a spatula used to break down the curd in cheese-making. [In quot. 1579 with punning reference to the name of the town Κατάνη , which the author implies is also a word for a cheese-grater. According to the grammarian Pollux, in Hellenistic Greek κατάνιον was a regional or colloquial variant of πατάνιον , a derivative of πατάνη , kind of dish (see paten n.).]
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > tool for breaking down curd
curd mill1378
cheese knife1579
breaker1844
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 1054 Callippus going to take a litle towne called Catana, he lost the citie of Syracvsa: whereupon he sayd that he had lost a citie, and got a..cheese-knife [Fr. rape à raper du formage; Gk. τυρόκνηστις].
1729 R. Bradley Gentleman & Farmer's Guide iii. 146 The Cloth must be tucked in with a wooden Cheese-Knife.
1833 F. Marryat in Olio 29 June 315/1 Instead of being straight, his shins curved like a cheese knife.
1927 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 61/3 Here is a cheese knife that contributes materially to convenient and dainty serving.
2014 M. Tunick Sci. Cheese 36 Harder cheeses require cutting of the curd with cheese knives, consisting of a metal frame strung with horizontal wires and another frame with vertical ones.
cheese ladder n. a structure resembling a ladder, used in cheese-making to support a sieve in which the curd is drained.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > separating whey > instrument for
cheese ladder1598
wheying cloth1660
skimming-dish1688
1598 Inventory in N. Lowe Lancs. Textile Industry 16th Cent. (1972) 110 A bagbreade and a Cheese ladder 4d.
1789 W. Marshall Rural Econ. Glocestershire I. xxxii. 268 Sieve holder; provincially ‘cheese ladder’.—This is laid across the cooler to place the milk sieve or strainer upon.
1921 School Arts Mag. Dec. 200/2 Boys whittled butter paddles, cheese ladders and hoops for their mothers.
1981 R. M. Netting Balancing on Alp ii. 25 The cheeses were..stored on edge on a suspended cheese ladder.
cheese maggot n. now rare = cheese-skipper n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Piophilidae > piophila casei > larva of
maggot?a1475
cheese maggot1605
1605 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Gen. Pract. Physick iii. xv. 432 But they which haue somewhat more carefully beheld them, do write yt the long Wormes do ingender in the vppermost bowels, and the small, like vnto cheese Magots onely in the arsegut.
1830 J. Rennie Insect Transformations x. 265 One very surprising provision is remarkable in the breathing-tubes of the cheese maggot.
2015 Y. H. Hui Plant Sanitation Food Processing & Food Service (ed. 2) xviii. 378 Cheese maggot or cheese skipper (Piophila casei) is a fly about the size of the housefly.
cheese maker n. a maker of cheese.Recorded earliest as a surname.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > cheese-maker
cheesewrightlOE
cheese man1262
cheese maker1275
1275 in W. Illingworth Rotuli Hundredorum (1812) I. 350 Robertus le Chesemaker.
1723 R. Bundy tr. B. Lamy Apparatus Biblicus i. iii. 74 The cheese-makers valley, that is, the valley which was inhabited by those who made cheese.
1868 7th Ann. Rep. State Board Agric. Michigan 237 The cheese-maker watching all the conditions, and standing ready at any time to check the curds.
2012 C. Dawson Cheese it! 3 Watching a cheese maker pouring, stirring, cutting, draining, milling, and pressing day after day.
cheese man n. a maker or seller of cheese.Recorded earliest as a surname.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > cheese-maker
cheesewrightlOE
cheese man1262
cheese maker1275
1262 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 66 (MED) Pet. Le Cheseman.
1387 in F. Collins Reg. Freemen York (1897) I. 85 (MED) Rob. de Cotyngham, cheseman.
1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals III. 161 Observing a Cheese-man who received about Fourscore Pounds..they attacked him and bid him deliver.
1871 Prairie Farmer (Chicago) 23 Sept. 298/1 The cheese men..made a splendid show. There were six different cheese factories of Minnesota represented.
1921 Butter, Cheese & Egg Jrnl. 28 Sept. 3/1 Other branches of the dairy industry have their national organizations. Why not the cheese men?
2006 Guardian 11 Apr. ii. 32/3 A contented cheese man stirs huge vats of warming milk before baking it in muslin.
cheese mite n. any of various minute acarine mites which infest old cheese, some of which (as Tyrophagus casei and Acarus siro) are used in the production of certain European cheeses.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Acari or family Acaridae > genus Acarus > tyroglyphus domesticus (cheese-mite)
cheese mite1631
milk-mite1861
tyroglyphid1909
1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. i. sig. Bv Poring through a multiplying glasse, Vpon a captiu'd crab-louse, or a cheese-mite To be dissected.
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 444 The Cheese-mite. To the naked eye these minute animals appear little more than moving particles of dust.
1961 J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson & J. Sankey Land Invertebr. xi. 127 Mention should also be made here of the well-known cheese-mites, or Tyroglyphidae.
2014 M. H. Tunick Sci. of Cheese xvi. 228 Milbenkäse (‘mite cheese’) hails from Würchwitz, Germany, where a cheese mite statue stands.
† cheese moat n. Obsolete = cheese vat n.; cf. moat n.2
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > cheese tub, vat, or mould
cheese vatOE
cheese tub1513
cheese moat1574
moat1577
cheese mould1588
chesford1596
vat1669
cheese hoop1678
chessel1721
cheesebail1730
thrusting-tub1846
hoop1857
1574 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1986) (modernized text) III. 309 To Elizabeth his wife..a swill tub, 1 milk trough, 2 cheese motes, [etc.].
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. iv. ii. 180 The attire of the Irish women's heads is more flat in the top, and broader on the sides, not much vnlike a cheese mot.
1629 Inventory Hatfield Priory in Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc. (1889) New Ser. 3 173 In the Dayrie... 4 cheesemoates... i wicker cheesemoate.
1843 Cambr. Independent Press 16 Sept. Kitchen and culinary articles, &c.: churn, milk pails, cheese press, milk stand, cheese moats, [etc.].
cheese on toast n. a light meal or snack consisting of toast topped with melted cheese.In early use probably not a fixed collocation.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > butter and cheese dishes > [noun] > Welsh rarebit
toasted cheese1589
Welsh rabbit1725
Scotch rabbit1747
Welsh rarebit1781
cheese toast1808
rarebit1848
cheese on toast1880
buck rarebit1927
1880 A. Morecamp Live Boys in Black Hills xiv. 175 Give 'em cheese on toast and iced milk every morning.
1917 B. Smith Lyman Vegetarian Diet & Dishes 133 (heading) Cheese on Toast.—Toast a slice of bread..on both sides;..lay a rather thin slice of good toasting cheese upon it; and toast before the fire in a Dutch oven.
2006 Sunday Times (Nexis) 1 Oct. (Style section) 93 I have already given you a recipe for cheese on toast, but welsh rarebit is quite different.
† cheese pale n. Scottish Obsolete = cheese scoop n.; cf. pale n.3 2.
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1859 Glasgow Herald 2 May 8/1 Auction..including..Weights, Measures, Scoops, Butter and Cheese Pales, Shop Steps, [etc.].
1891 Cent. Dict. Cheese pale, a sharp instrument of a semicircular concave form, like a small scoop, for piercing cheese to sample it.
1916 Bull. W. Scotl. Agric. Coll. No. 76 76 Each sample consisted of five cores, taken with a cheese-pale.
cheese pie n. a savoury pie with a cheese filling.
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1850 Mrs. J. Foster tr. G. Vasari Lives Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects I. ii. 352 What with his cheese-pies and cheese-soup, he has made me swallow such a mountain of cheese, that I am all turned into cheese myself.
1941 N.Y. Times 1 Apr. 20 When America's forefathers and their families first set foot on our soil they brought with them the art of making cheese pie.
1995 Minnesota Monthly Feb. 67/1 Options include cheese pie, spinach pie, eggplant dip, and more exotic choices.
2010 Daily Tel. 6 Jan. 32/3 Maureen from Glasgow whipped up her much admired cheese pie and beany mince.
cheese plant n. (a) the common mallow, Malva sylvestris (cf. sense 2) (rare); (in later use also) = Swiss cheese plant n. at Swiss cheese n. Compounds; (b) (chiefly U.S.) a factory that makes cheese.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > foliage, house, or garden plants > [noun] > Swiss cheese plant
cheese plant1846
Monstera1858
ceriman1871
Swiss cheese plant1946
1846 Course Six Lessons New Art of Memory iii. 26 I take the plant Malva sylvestris; I call this the cheese plant, on account of its fruit resembling, and being generally called cheeses.
1936 Sewage Wks. Jrnl. 8 489 In this class we also find the cheese plant that is very common in the northern part of New York State, where whole milk is manufactured into cheddar cheese.
1973 F. Ward & P. Peskett Indoor Plants 110 They [sc. Monstera deliciosa and M. obliqua] are commonly called Cheese Plant or Hurricane Plant.
2014 D. DeWitt Dishing up New Mexico iii. 101/1 Elsewhere in the state, the Glanbia cheese plant near Clovis is the largest producer of cheddar in North America.
cheese plate n. (a) a small plate used for cheese at the end of a meal; (also in extended use) a large, flat button resembling such a plate (more fully cheese-plate button) (obsolete); (b) a large plate on which cheese is served; a selection of cheeses served alone or as part of a meal.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > other types of dish
spice-plate1391
pie plate1573
maple dish1637
cheese platea1665
supper dish1664
copperplate1665
reaming dish1712
paper plate1723
pickle leaf1762
pap-boat1782
supper1787
vegetable dish1799
well-dish1814
ice plate1820
pudding plate1838
tea plate1862
picnic plate1885
strawberry dish1941
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > parts of > button
cheese platea1665
barrel1898
a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 270 A large round Cheese of the bigness of an ordinary Tart-plate, or Cheese-plate.
1848 Night's Pleasure in W. M. Thackeray Sketches & Trav. London (1856) 151 A bang-up white coat, covered with mother-of-pearl cheese-plates.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis I. 44 A white upper coat ornamented with cheese-plate buttons.
1865 Reader 18 Nov. 573/1 Masters in Chancery..with tonsures as large as cheese-plates.
1941 Amer. Cookery May 631/2 Cheese bought in individual portions can be placed in a circular manner on a cheese plate.
1993 Toronto Life Apr. 59/1 His cheese plate should be required eating for European visitors.
cheese rack n. a rack or frame for drying or storing newly made cheese.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > drying frame
cheeseheck1345
heck1403
cheese rack1456
cheese cratch1586
hake1689
cheese crate1846
1456 in H. E. Salter Registrum Cancelarii Oxoniensis (1932) I. 365 (MED) A chese racke precii iii d.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement iii. f. xxiiii Chese rake, caisier a frommages.
1773 R. Fergusson Poems 88 My cheese-rack toom that ne'er was toom before.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. ii. 27 What a great stupe I must have been to dream of putting her in the cheese-rack.
2009 W. Lonetree Fool's Handbk. ix. 79 I'm taking some cheese right off the front of the cheese rack.
cheese ramekin n. = ramekin n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > butter and cheese dishes > [noun] > other cheese dishes
ramekin1653
cheese ramekin1725
Sefton1845
fonduta1932
cauliflower cheese1940
parm1974
parmigiana1978
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Ramequin's To make Cheese-Ramequins, a Farce is to be prepar'd of the same sort as that describ'd for Cheese-Cakes.
1899 Daily News 30 Sept. 7/4 Little individual dishes of devilled macaroni,..cheese ramaquins, etc.
2005 Birmingham (Alabama) News (Nexis) 20 May g23 There also will be cheese ramekins; buttermilk scones with blueberry and strawberry jam and clotted cream; sun-dried apricot cornmeal bars.
cheese sauce n. a sauce made with melted cheese, alone or as a roux or white sauce.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > other sauces
galantine1304
civya1325
egerdouce1381
gravy?c1390
camelinea1425
chawdronc1440
saffron sauce?a1505
sibber-sauce1556
ferry?1570
oxoleum1574
slabber-sauce1574
saupiquet1656
slapsauce1708
brown sauce1723
bread sauce1727
custard1747
bechamel1789
caper-sauce1791
tomato sauce1804
custard cream1805
allemande1806
sambal1815
Reading sauce1816
Harvey's Sauce1818
velouté sauce1830
suprême sauce1833
parsley sauce1836
agrodolce1838
Worcestershire sauce1843
espagnole1845
pestoa1848
cheese sauce1854
nam prik1857
Worcester sauce1863
Béarnaise sauce1868
Béarnaise1877
Yorkshire Relish1877
sauce mousseline1892
velvet sauce1893
gribiche1897
mornay sauce1900
sugo1906
sofrito1913
chile con queso1916
foo yung1917
marinara1932
pistou1951
hoisin1957
salsa verde1957
pico de gallo1958
sriracha1959
carbonara1962
amatriciana1963
arrabbiata1963
ponzu1966
puttanesca1971
chermoula1974
tikka masala1975
mojo1983
queso1989
1854 A. Soyer Shilling Cookery 112 Califlower and Brocoli [sic], with Cheese Sauce.
1903 Christian Advocate 19 Nov. 1883 Boiled and served with white sauce, Bechamel, Hollandaise, or cheese sauce, [kohl-rabi]..is very good.
1973 ‘M. Underwood’ Reward for Defector viii. 63 They sat down to roast lamb, roast potatoes, cauliflower with a cheese sauce and brussel sprouts.
1989 San Francisco Focus Oct. 54/2 Chili dogs and nachos in cheese sauce are X-rated movie food.
2008 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Jan. 60/1 Potatoes au gratin..with less cheese sauce and more attitude.
cheese scoop n. an implement used to take small, rounded portions of cheese for serving or eating, or to extract a sample of cheese.
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1814 Bury & Norwich Post 10 Aug. The Plate consists of upwards of 300 ounces, and includes a tankard, pint mug.., cheese scoop.., and a number of other articles.
1890 Sunday Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 15 Jan. 4/7 The grain tester..is for..picking up an all-through sample like a cheese or a butter scoop.
1947 Homes & Gardens Sept. 37/1 We may never again go to the grocer's to find cheeses offered, one after another on a cheese scoop.
2007 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 14 Oct. There are hundreds of variations of cheese scoops made of silver or silver plate.
cheese shelf n. a shelf for storing cheese; (now also) a supermarket shelf for displaying cheese.
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1595 in Sc. Hist. Rev. Apr. (1913) 303 Item cheis shelf. Item ane brewing spult.
1629 Inventory Hatfield Priory in Trans. Essex Archæol. Soc. (1889) New Ser. 3 174 Cheese shelves wth 3 stories.
1839 S. J. B. Hale Good Housekeeper xii. 111 Never wash your cheese shelves; but always wipe them clean with a dry cloth, when you turn your cheese.
1996 Hello! 27 Jan. 87/1 Some supermarkets may sell pre-cut pieces of vacuum-packed Emmenthal on the cheese shelves.
cheese-skipper n. the larva of the cheese fly, Piophila casei, which leaps into the air when disturbed; (also) the adult cheese fly.The larva is used in the production of certain Sardinian and Corsican cheeses. It can cause myiasis when ingested with infested food.
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1808 Mem. Philadelphia Soc. for Promoting Agric. 1 133 The smallest size [of worms infesting the heads of sheep] which I have observed, is less than a cheese skipper, about one inch up the nose.
1947 M. T. James Flies that cause Myiasis in Man (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 158 The Cheese Skipper. Recognition Characters.—Adult: This is a black fly 2.5-4 mm. in length.
2005 G. Blunt Blackfly Season xxvi.162 Cheese skippers even spring off a corpse and land maybe a couple of feet away.
cheese spread n. a spread made from cream cheese or (now more usually) processed cheese.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > relish > [noun] > spread
paste1817
spread1866
fish paste1920
cheese spread1921
sandwich spreadc1938
Marmite1966
1921 Good Housek. Mar. 68/2 Cheese spread... 5 small packages cream cheese.
1975 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 12 July 1/2 The cosmonauts will dine on steak in plastic pouches, rye bread, cheese spread, rehydrated strawberries, [etc.].
2006 D. Parr Abide with Me viii. 81 She nibbled on a cracker topped with cheese spread.
cheese straw n. a thin strip of pastry flavoured with cheese.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > other pastry articles > [noun]
crisp?c1390
mellinder1604
baby cakea1637
cannelons1733
yule-dough1777
vol-au-vent1828
sausage roll1852
cheese fingers1863
cheese straw1866
horn1908
pig in a blanket1926
brik1938
chin-chin1948
pull-apart1958
fortune cookie1962
feuilleté1970
money bag1993
1866 H. St. Clair Dainty Dishes 169 (heading) Pailles au Parmesan, or Cheese Straws.
1892 T. F. Garrett & W. A. Rawson Encycl. Pract. Cookery I. 350/2 Cheese Straws,..bake for ten minutes in a quick oven.
2005 Vanity Fair Apr. 194/2 If I see one more cheese straw I will burst into flames.
cheese-taster n. (a) an implement used to extract a sample of cheese; (b) a person whose profession is to taste cheese in order to judge its quality.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > tool for sampling cheese
cheese-taster1686
tasting-knife1757
taster1784
pale1816
spyler1844
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 109 An instrument of Iron made like a Cheese-Taster, only much larger and longer, called an Auger or Butterboare.
1887 Daily Tel. 15 Mar. 5/2 Testing its [sc. the earth's] interior composition as a grocer tries a Dutch cheese with a cheese-taster.
1925 Washington Post 8 Nov. 11/2 A big butter and cheese taster will be needed if the Mexican government insists on its requirements for the importation of these commodities from the United States.
1929 Western Gaz. 27 Dec. 2/4 Linee took from his pocket a cheese taster and offered a sample of the cheese, which he cut from the centre of the top, to Mr. Lawrence to taste.
2013 Times (Nexis) 9 Nov. 90 A skilled cheese-taster can tell where a parmesan has come from purely by its taste.
cheese toast n. now chiefly U.S. a light meal or snack consisting of toast topped with melted cheese; a slice of this (cf. cheese on toast n.).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > butter and cheese dishes > [noun] > Welsh rarebit
toasted cheese1589
Welsh rabbit1725
Scotch rabbit1747
Welsh rarebit1781
cheese toast1808
rarebit1848
cheese on toast1880
buck rarebit1927
1808 D. Macdonald New London Family Cook 369 (heading) Cheese Toast. Mix some fine fresh butter, made mustard, and salt, well together; spread it on fresh-made thin toasts, and grate or scrape Gloucester cheese upon them.
1951 Independent Jrnl. (San Rafael, Calif.) 5 Apr. 15/5 Both French toast and cheese toast are hearty enough for main dishes.
2007 C. Holton Secret Lives Kudzu Debutantes 175 No, I haven't checked the cheese toasts, have you checked the cheese toasts?
cheese-toaster n. (a) a long-handled fork for toasting cheese on a fire; (hence) †a sword (obsolete); (b) a metal appliance for making cheese on toast beside a fire; spec. one having a hollow outer case for hot water in order to warm the toast (now historical).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > toasting-fork or implement
toast-iron1483
toasting-irona1616
cheese-toaster1678
toaster1695
toast-fork1801
toasting-fork1807
toasting-jack1873
jaffle iron1981
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > sword > [noun]
sword971
brandOE
edgeOE
ironOE
brandelletc1325
garec1330
toolc1386
brank1480
tranchefera1533
flatchet1577
Morglay1582
smiter1591
brandiron1596
Toledo1601
machaira1614
spit-frog1615
toasting-irona1616
spit1642
bilbo1676
porker1688
tilter1688
degen1699
spurtlec1700
toaster1751
toasting-fork1807
slasher1815
cheese-cutter1824
khanda1825
cheese-toaster1858
windlestraw1895
1678 in F. B. Bickley Catal. MSS & Munim. Dulwich (1903) 2nd Ser. 32 A tin cheese toster.
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lvi. 146 He did not value their cheese-toasters a pinch of oakum.
1788 R. Briggs Eng. Art Cookery xv. 356 Cut a slice of cheese nearly the size of the bread, put it in a cheese-toaster, and toast one side.
1858 W. M. Thackeray Virginians I. x. 82 I'll drive my cheese-toaster through his body.
1896 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 23 June 8/1 In his pistol pocket he carried a cheese toaster; in his side coat pocket he carries a dish rag, salt, pepper, etc.
1997 B. C. Wees Eng., Irish, & Sc. Silver at S. & F. Clark Inst. 148/2 The ‘cheese toaster’ is equipped with a hot-water jacket.
† cheese trencher n. Obsolete a plate or platter used for cheese, typically having a proverb or adage inscribed on the rim.
ΚΠ
1566 in E. Roberts & K. Parker Southampton Probate Inventories, 1447–1575 (1992) II. 245 j dozen of chese trenchers, vj d.
1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore sig. H4v As one of our Cheese-trenchers sayes very learnedly: As out of Wormwood Bees suck Hony, As from poore clients Lawyers firke mony.
1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse Prol. 94 in Wks. II Doe not..force vs act, Incompasse of a cheese-trencher.
1874 J. Sharman Prov. of J. Heywood Introd. p.l One of the buffo-characters begins to quote learnedly from a cheese-trencher.
1903 Good Housek. Nov. 451/1 The cheese trencher was surely two hundred years old, for I saw its fac simile in London in the home of a collector of rare antiquities.
cheese tub n. (a) a large cylindrical tub for holding the milk used in cheese-making (now historical); †(b) U.S. a ship with one or more cylindrical gun turrets (likened in shape to cheese tubs); = monitor n. 4b; cf. cheese box n. (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag > for cheese
cheese tub1513
cheese box1855
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > cheese tub, vat, or mould
cheese vatOE
cheese tub1513
cheese moat1574
moat1577
cheese mould1588
chesford1596
vat1669
cheese hoop1678
chessel1721
cheesebail1730
thrusting-tub1846
hoop1857
1513 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 40 j chesetubbe.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 335/1 A Cheese Ladder..serveth to lay over the Cheese Tub for the Cheese Fat to rest upon, while the Dairy Woman presseth the Whay out of the Cruds.
1794 T. Wedge Gen. View Agric. Chester 50 This whey is..returned into the cheese-tub again.
1862 Charleston (S. Carolina) Daily Courier 18 Mar. The great cheese tub, Erricson, of Yankee noteriety [sic], had passed Newport's News..on her way up James river.
1867 J. T. Headley Farragut & Naval Commanders 519 Worden in his ‘cheese-tub’, as the rebels called her, was crowding all steam to overtake his powerful adversary.
1980 Pennsylvania Hist. 47 202 One dairy had among its utensils..a twenty-five gallon cheese tub with cover and stand.
cheese-water n. [ < cheese n.1 + water n., after German Käsewasser (c1400 in medical texts)] now historical watery liquid distilled from cheese.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > water or solutions > types of solution
lyea700
capital?a1425
buck1562
lessive1597
cheese-water1599
buck-lye1632
pickle1782
lysol1891
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 254/2 Wash yourselfe with the cheese-water[Ger. Kässwasser] mixed with the Camphir .
1899 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 10 411 Place one at a time, and at right angles to the snail's line of motion, a band of distilled water, of a weak solution of sugar, of acetic acid, of quinine, of alcohol, of cheese-water, of meat juice, etc.
1966 Chymia 11 41 Materials of animal origin include..cheese water, and the gall of cows and birds.
cheeseweed n. chiefly U.S. any of various mallows (family Malvaceae) having small edible fruits, each fruit resembling a wheel of cheese cut into wedges; cf. cheese plant n.Some species of Malva, esp. M. parviflora, are commonly classed as noxious agricultural weeds.
ΚΠ
1896 Independent (N.Y.) 30 Apr. 1/2 The sprightly Canada thistle, the lively yellow mustard, and the ‘cheese-weed’ (Malva rotundifolia) of our childhood must still be labored with.
1977 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 27 May 13/2 A green salad of tumbleweeds, cheeseweed fruits, fennel and wild radishes is distinctively piquant.
2008 Western Farm Press 17 May 8 Roundup doesn't effectively control all weeds,..including malva (cheeseweed) and annual bluegrass in low desert fields.
cheese wire n. a length of thin metal wire for cutting cheese, typically having handles at each end; also: the type of wire used in such an implement.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > apparatus for specific foods
cheese-cutter1681
suet chopper1795
soda-fountain1824
sausage machinec1840
acetifier1853
honey extractor1862
cheese wire1887
sorbetière1965
1887 B. Tupholme Brit. Patent 10,473 (1888) 1 (title) Improvements in cheese wire handles.
1961 Brit. Bee Jrnl. 29 Apr. 102/1 When the time comes to harvest the honey a cheese wire is used to separate the cobs and the honey left on the hives.
1978 Times 5 May (Grocery Retailing section) p. i/1 The tools of his trade are cheese wire, a bacon slicer and bicycle with an iron basket.
2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Business Suppl.) 32/2 Tools whose importance varies according to the chef's assignment: poultry shears, cheese wire, ravioli tins and slicers for everything from tomatoes to truffles.
cheesewright n. a cheese maker.In quot. lOE: spec. a female cheese maker.In quots. 1228 and 1293 as a surname.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > cheese-maker
cheesewrightlOE
cheese man1262
cheese maker1275
lOE Laws: Rectitudines (Corpus Cambr.) xvi. 451 Be cyswyrhte [heading in a slightly later hand]. Cyswyrhtan gebyreð hundred cyse, & þæt heo of wringhwæge buteran macige to hlafordes beode.
1228 Patent Rolls Henry III (1903) II. 212 Ricardum Chesewricte.
1293 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 66 (MED) Augustinus le Chesewryghte.
1893 H. D. Traill Social Eng. I. ii. 125 Bee-keepers, cheese-wrights, barn-keepers, swine-herds, oxherds, [etc.]
2012 C. Dawson Cheese It! 20 A true cheesewright will tell you that a machine cannot make decisions about milk's taste, smell, texture, and consistency as it is turned into cheese.
cheese-wring n. now historical (a) = cheese press n.; (b) any of a number of tors thought to resemble a cheese-wring, esp. one located near Liskeard, Cornwall.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > cheese-press
cheese press1388
cheese-wring1526
wring1891
1526 in J. P. Collier Trevelyan Papers (1857) 128 ij chese wrynges.
a1705 J. Ray Itineraries in Select Remains (1760) 289 Two Miles North of St. Clere, are those Stones which they call the Cheese-Wring.
1859 Geologist Aug. 302 Isolated heaps or pillars, such as ‘cheesewrings’.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Cheese-wring, a cheese-press, found in every dairy. A rock at Lynton is called ‘the Devil's Cheese-wring’.
1974 Illustr. London News Christmas No. 86/4 Pottery cheese-wrings have been found on many Romano-British sites.

Derivatives

ˈcheeseless adj. not containing cheese; characterized by the absence of cheese.
ΚΠ
1837 Hagerstown Mail 7 Apr. Glad to compromise for a breath of cheeseless air, we desisted from the struggle to obtain a sight of the table.
1969 Daily Tel. 9 Oct. 16/4 The era of meatless meat, chickenless chicken and cheeseless cheese is already dawning in America.
2012 N.Y. Mag. 16 July 43/3 The lip-smacking gyudon (like a cheeseless Philly cheesesteak in the guise of a Japanese beef-and-rice bowl).
ˈcheese-like adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [adjective] > alteration of tissue > degeneration
cheese-like1634
cheesy1662
caseous1684
waxy1845
fibroid1852
histolytic1853
amyloid1859
Wallerian1877
fibrosing1879
fibrotic1893
steatogene1893
steatogenous1899
histolysing1912
blastophthoric1913
hyalinized1929
fibrosed1956
steatogenic1956
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxiv. xxiii. 912 They give the child the milk, despoiled of its butterish and whayish portion, and the terrestriall and cheeselike or curdlike remaining.
1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 329 Encysted tumors, containing a cheese-like matter.
2010 A. Cohen & L. J. Dubois Raw Food for Everyone 34 Pine nuts have a cheese-like flavor.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† cheesen.2

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Urdu. Party a borrowing from Persian. Etymons: Urdu cīz; Persian cīz.
Etymology: Probably < (i) Urdu cīz thing, thing of value, and its etymon (ii) Persian cīz thing (compare thing n.1 7).There is no early written evidence of this word from British India, but H. Yule and A. C. Burnell ( Hobson-Jobson (1886) at cheese) reports that ‘the expression used to be common among Anglo-Indians’. There is apparently no related Romani word, so the expression is unlikely to have reached Europe and North America by that route. N.E.D. (1889) gives the pronunciation as (tʃīz) /tʃiːz/.
colloquial. Obsolete.
With the. The right, correct, or best thing; something first-rate, genuine, or exemplary.In quot. 1882 used punningly, perhaps as a first example of cheese n.1 7a.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [noun] > good thing
goodeOE
card1840
cheese1840
honey1848
casein1851
hon1896
1840 H. D. Miles Dick Turpin xxi. 251 Skewer the jigger.., carn't yer... Slog her Nan; that's the cheese.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Codlingsby in Punch 22 May 213/2 ‘You look like a Prince in it, Mr. Lint,’ pretty Rachael said... ‘It is the cheese’, replied Mr. Lint.
1882 N.Y. Commerc. Advertiser 11 Mar. 3/1 There is a paper published in Florida called the ‘Cracker’. We presume its editor is the cheese.
1911 D. Belasco Girl of Golden West viii. 156 The Girl could not restrain her enthusiasm. ‘That's the cheese! You've struck it!’
1928 M. C. Sharpe Chicago May 267 It would be the cheese for him to break into Christie's art department, steal a painting.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

cheesev.1

Brit. /tʃiːz/, U.S. /tʃiz/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: cheese n.1
Etymology: < cheese n.1 Compare earlier cheesing n.With sense 2 compare cheese n.1 9.
1.
†a. transitive. To make (milk or curd) into cheese. Formerly also intransitive: †(of curd) to form into cheese. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades v. 102 And as full oft in Sommer time their labor men do leese In putting curdes into the presse, whyche hardly then will cheese.
1848 Trans. N.-Y. State Agric. Soc. 1847 7 265 The coagulator is an essential agent in cheesing the curd.
1889 Wisconsin Farmer's Inst. Bull. No. 3. 51/1 Brick cheese can be made by cheesing milk once a day.
b. transitive. To add cheese to (a dish or item of food).
ΚΠ
1827 Domest. Econ. & Cookery for Rich & Poor 646 Any of these may be cheesed or curried.
1918 Amer. Cookery Oct. 181/1 Mr. Judson accepted a helping from the casserole of cauliflower, liberally cheesed, without a murmur.
1996 E. Morgan Mom to Mom (1998) xiii. 100 She chopped the fruit and cheesed the potatoes.
2. intransitive. Originally Rugby School. To smile.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > smile [verb (intransitive)]
smirkc888
smilea1300
subride1623
to break a smile1796
beam1893
cheese1930
1930 Notes & Queries 158 119/1 Another slang use of the word ‘cheese’ was in vogue at Rugby School... This was with the meaning ‘smile’, both verb and noun.
2004 T. L. Lee & C. M. Anthony Gotham Diaries 28 Manny cheesed for a few pictures with Lauren.
2013 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Apr. (Arts & Leisure section) 21/4 When I hear your name I cannot stop cheesing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cheesev.2

Brit. /tʃiːz/, U.S. /tʃiz/
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: cease v.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps an alteration of cease v., after cheese n.1Allusion to the expression after cheese comes nothing at cheese n.1 Phrases 2 has also been suggested.
colloquial. Now rare.
transitive. To discontinue (an action). Chiefly in imperative in cheese it: stop it, leave off, run away; (formerly also) be silent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)]
aswikec975
linOE
beleavec1175
forletc1175
i-swikec1175
restc1175
stutte?c1225
lina1300
blinc1314
to give overc1325
to do wayc1350
stintc1366
finisha1375
leavea1375
yleavec1380
to leave offa1382
refuse1389
ceasec1410
resigna1413
respite?a1439
relinquish1454
surcease1464
discontinue1474
unfill1486
supersede1499
desist1509
to have ado?1515
stop1525
to lay aside1530
stay1538
quata1614
to lay away1628
sist1635
quita1642
to throw up1645
to lay by1709
to come off1715
unbuckle1736
peter1753
to knock off1767
stash1794
estop1796
stow1806
cheese1811
to chuck itc1879
douse1887
nark1889
to stop off1891
stay1894
sling1902
can1906
to lay off1908
to pack in1934
to pack up1934
to turn in1938
to break down1941
to tie a can to (or on)1942
to jack in1948
to wrap it up1949
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Cheese it, the coves are fly.
1866 Evening Standard 27 July As soon as he went up the prisoner Blagin said, ‘Cheese it (run away), here's the bobby coming.’
1880 Times, for the year 1980 4/4 He told the station master at the balloon depôt to cheese it; but thought better of it afterwards.
1883 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool ii. xxxiii. 326 ‘Cheese it, mates! 'ere comes the bobbies!’
1938 P. G. Wodehouse Code of Woosters xii. 261 I pulled myself together and cheesed the bird imitation.
1972 F. B. Maynard Raisins & Almonds 60 ‘Cheese it!’ Hazel called. She streaked for the door, with Fern at her heels.
1984 K. Amis Stanley & Women i. 57 No use telling her to stow it or cheese it or come off it because she really believes it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cheesev.3

Brit. /tʃiːz/, U.S. /tʃiz/
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by conversion. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: cheese n.1, cheese v.2
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps (i) < cheese n.1, or perhaps (ii) a specific sense development of cheese v.2 Compare slightly earlier cheesed adj.
colloquial (chiefly British).
transitive. With off. To annoy, irritate, or frustrate (a person). Cf. cheesed off at cheesed adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex
gremec893
dretchc900
awhenec1000
teenOE
fretc1290
annoyc1300
atrayc1320
encumberc1330
diseasec1340
grindc1350
distemperc1386
offenda1387
arra1400
avexa1400
derea1400
miscomforta1400
angerc1400
engrievec1400
vex1418
molesta1425
entrouble?1435
destroublea1450
poina1450
rubc1450
to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450
disprofit1483
agrea1492
trouble1515
grig1553
mis-set?1553
nip?1553
grate1555
gripe1559
spitec1563
fike?1572
gall1573
corsie1574
corrosive1581
touch1581
disaccommodate1586
macerate1588
perplex1590
thorn1592
exulcerate1593
plague1595
incommode1598
affret1600
brier1601
to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603
discommodate1606
incommodate1611
to grate on or upon1631
disincommodate1635
shog1636
ulcerate1647
incommodiate1650
to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653
discommodiate1654
discommode1657
ruffle1659
regrate1661
disoblige1668
torment1718
pesta1729
chagrin1734
pingle1740
bothera1745
potter1747
wherrit1762
to tweak the nose of1784
to play up1803
tout1808
rasp1810
outrage1818
worrit1818
werrit1825
buggerlug1850
taigle1865
get1867
to give a person the pip1881
to get across ——1888
nark1888
eat1893
to twist the tail1895
dudgeon1906
to tweak the tail of1909
sore1929
to put up1930
wouldn't it rip you!1941
sheg1943
to dick around1944
cheese1946
to pee off1946
to honk off1970
to fuck off1973
to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977
to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983
to wind up1984
to dick about1996
to-teen-
1946 Punch 18 Sept. 221 It's this 'ere 'having to read in bed that cheeses me off.
1970 Times of India 8 Nov. 11/3 What had ‘cheesed him off’..was the irksome plane-hop from hotel to hotel, the world over.
1992 Men's Health Nov. 38/1 There was a bat in the attic at the time. Bats cheese me off. I know they have their admirers.
2011 Independent 1 July (Viewspaper section) 2/2 John McCain managed to cheese off John Mellencamp, Foo Fighters, Heart and Jackson Browne in a single campaign.
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