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noun

a food made from the curds of soured milk pressed together to form a solid that is usually allowed to ripen
a shaped mass of this
a thing like cheese in shape or consistency

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noun

Slang an important person

intransitive verb cheesed, cheesing

Slang to stop

See cheese in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(chēz)

noun

a. A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk, often seasoned and aged.
b. A molded mass of this substance.
Something resembling this substance in shape or consistency.

(chēz)

transitive verb cheesed cheesed, chees·ing, chees·es
Slang

To stop.

(chēz)

noun
Slang

An important person. Often used in the phrase big cheese.

See cheese in Ologies

Cheese

See also food and nutrition; milk.

the formation of cheese from casein during the coagulation of milk.

fromology

a knowledge of cheeses.

laclabphily

the collecting of cheese labels.

tyromancy

Obsolete, a form of divination involving observation of cheese, especially as it coagulates.

tyrosemiophily

the collecting of Camembert cheese labels.

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