cheese

Meaning of cheese

noun
  1. a food made from the pressed curds of milk, firm and elastic or soft and semi-liquid in texture.
    grated cheese
    a cheese sandwich
    a cow's milk cheese
  2. the quality of being too obviously sentimental.
    the conversations tend too far towards cheese

Old English cēse, cȳse, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch kaas and German Käse ; from Latin caseus .

verb
  1. exasperate, frustrate, or bore (someone).
    I got a bit cheesed off with the movie

early 19th century (in the archaic phrase cheese it, used to urge someone to stop doing something): the current use dates from the 1940s. Both uses are of uncertain origin.

Information about cheese

  • The plural form of cheese is: cheeses.
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Hyphenation of cheese

cheese

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • cheese is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

cheese synonyms

Meaning tall mallow:

cheeseflower

Translation of cheese

Anagrams of cheese

eeches

Words that rhyme with cheese

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