Cheese Definition

chēz

cheesed, cheeses, cheesing

noun

cheeses

A food made from the curds of soured milk pressed together to form a solid that is usually allowed to ripen.

Webster's New World

A shaped mass of this.

Webster's New World

A thing like cheese in shape or consistency.

Webster's New World

An important person.

Webster's New World

(countable) Any particular variety of cheese.

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Synonyms:

verb

cheesed, cheesing

To stop.

American Heritage

To stop.

Webster's New World

To prepare curds for making cheese.

Wiktionary

(technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

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(slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".

All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.

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other

Other Word Forms of Cheese

Singular:

cheese

Plural:

From Middle English chese, from Old English ċēse, ċīese (“cheese”), from West Germanic or late Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz (“cheese”), from Latin cāseus (“cheese”), from Proto-Indo-European *kwat- (“to ferment, become sour”). Cognate with West Frisian tsiis (“cheese”), Low German Kees (“cheese”), Dutch kaas (“cheese”), German Käse (“cheese”). Also related to Old English hwaþerian (“to roar, foam, surge”), dialectal Swedish hvå (“foam”), Albanian kos (“yoghurt”), Latvian kūsāt (“to boil”), Old Church Slavonic квасъ (kvasŭ, “leaven; sour drink”), Sanskrit क्वथते (kváthate, “it boils”).

From Wiktionary
Perhaps from Urdu chīz thing from Persian from Old Persian ciš-ciy something kwo- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English chese from Old English cȳse from Germanic kasjus from Latin cāseus

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Probably from Persian چيز (čīz, “thing”).

From Wiktionary
Origin unknown

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From cheesy.

From Wiktionary