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English

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Cheese for sale in a market.
Feta, a Greekcheese.

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Etymology 1

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    Proto-West Germanic*kāsī
    Old Englishċīese
    Middle Englishchese
    Englishcheese

    FromMiddle Englishchese, fromOld Englishċīese, specifically theAnglian formċēse, fromProto-West Germanic*kāsī, borrowed fromLatincāseus.Doublet ofqueso.

    Cognate withSaterland FrisianSíes(“cheese”),West Frisiantsiis(“cheese”),Dutchkaas(“cheese”),German Low GermanKees(“cheese”),GermanKäse(“cheese”).

    Noun

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    cheese (countable anduncountable,pluralcheesesor(archaic)cheesen)

    2. (uncountable) Adairy product made fromcurdled orculturedmilk.
    3. (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
    4. (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
      • 2015 August, Dominik Guggisberget al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, inInternational Dairy Journal‎[2], volume47,Elsevier,→DOI, pages118–127:
        In the tomographic images of the 30-day-oldcheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 104) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.
    5. (uncountable, UK) A thick variety ofjam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes calledjelly)
      • 1807, Nutt, F. (1807).The Complete Confectioner: Or, The Whole Art of Confectionary Made Easy: Containing, Among a Variety of Useful Matter, the Art of Making the Various Kinds of Biscuits, Drops ... as Also the Most Approved Method of Making Cheeses, Puddings, Cakes &c. in 250 Cheap and Fashionable Receipts. The Result of Many Years Experience with the Celebrated Negri and Witten. United Kingdom: reprinted, for Richard Scott and sold at his bookstore, no. 243 Pearl-street.
        p.82-3, No.244. DamsonCheese: “Pick the damsons free from stalks···You may make plum or bullacecheese in the same way···”
    6. A substance resembling cream cheese, such aslemon cheese
    7. (uncountable, colloquial) That which ismelodramatic, overlyemotional, orcliché, i.e.cheesy.
      • 2012, Katrina Hill,Action Movie Freak, page117:
        It's time to add somecheese to this action burger! Every genre has them, everybody loves them ... it's the parodies!
      • 2012 June 18, Ryan Lambie, “10 delightfully cheesy 90s sci-fi movie trailers”, inDen of Geek!‎[3], archived fromthe original on7 July 2017:
        A film ostensibly about the lead singer of a hair metal band killing innocent people on a future planet Earth, Alienator is the epitome of low-budgetcheese.
    8. (uncountable, slang)Money.
    9. (countable, UK) Inskittles, the roughlyovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
    10. (uncountable, slang, baseball) Afastball.
    11. (uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tarheroin and crushedTylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
    12. (vulgar, slang)Smegma.
    13. (technology)Holed pattern ofcircuitry to decrease pattern density.
      • 2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation
        It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout pattern density.
    14. A mass ofpomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
      • 2011, P. Rutledge, “Production of Non-Fermented Fruit Products”, in D. Arthey, P.R. Ashurst, editors,Fruit Processing,→ISBN, page77:
        Apple pulp is poured into the cloth until the frame is full. The edges of the cloth are folded over the pulp forming a cloth-bound bed of apple pulp, called a 'cheese' as it resembles the European-style boundcheese. The frame is removed, a divider is placed on the 'cheese' and another 'cheese' is built on top of the first, and so on.
    15. The flat, circular,mucilaginousfruit ofdwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) ormarshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
    16. A lowcurtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
      • 1853,Thomas De Quincey, “I Enter the World”, inAutobiographic Sketches:
        The time was morning; the young lady was not fifteen; her spirits were as the spirits of a fawn in May; hertour of duty for the day was either not come, or was gone; and, finding herself alone in a spacious room, what more reasonable thing could she do than amuse herself withmakingcheeses? that is, whirling round, according to a fashion practised by young ladies both in France and England, and pirouetting until the petticoat is inflated like a balloon, and then sinking into a courtesy.
      • 1857,William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 34, inThe Virginians:
        "I thank your ladyship, I don't like tanzing, and I don't like cards," says Miss Hester, tossing up her head; and, dropping a curtsey like a "cheese," she strutted away from the Countess's table.
      • 1897, Stanley John Weyman, “The Deanery Ball”, inFor the Cause:
        Mrs. Curzon-Bowlby, thus deserted in the middle of the room, dropped the prettiest of "cheeses," and broke into a merry peal of unaffected laughter.
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    • (antonym(s) of“circuitry”):fill(“dummy pattern to increase pattern density”)
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    Translations
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    dairy product
    countable: any particular variety of cheese
    slang: money
    slang: fastball in baseball
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    Verb

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    cheese (third-person singular simple presentcheeses,present participlecheesing,simple past and past participlecheesed)

    1. To preparecurds for making cheese.
    2. (technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
    3. (slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.
      • 2013,Michael W. Eagle II, “Degrassi Picture Day” (track 1), inSir Rockabye, performed by Open Mike Eagle and Busdriver:
        Yeah, a couple homegirlscheese they little faces off / They happy cause they finally got they braces off
      • 2020,Bryan Washington,Memorial, Atlantic Books (2021), page189:
        Now Kunihiko sprinted back up the stairs. Exploded through the bar with three sacks of convenience store chicken,cheesing from ear to ear.
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    Etymology 2

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    Perhaps an alteration ofcheers.

    Interjection

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    cheese!

    1. (photography)Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.
      Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!
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    said while being photographed

    Etymology 3

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    Though commonly claimed to be a borrowing ofPersianچیز(čiz,“thing”), the term does not occur earliest in Anglo-Indian sources, but instead is "well recorded in British and Australian sources from the 1840s onwards".[1]

    Noun

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    cheese (uncountable)

    1. (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
    2. (slang, dated, British India) The correct thing, of excellent quality; theticket.
      Thesecheroots are the realcheese.
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    1. ^James Lambert, 2018, 'Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles'World Englishes Vol. 37, page 255.[1]

    Etymology 4

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    Etymology unknown. Possibly an alteration ofcease.

    Verb

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    cheese (third-person singular simple presentcheeses,present participlecheesing,simple past and past participlecheesed)

    1. (slang) To stop; to refrain from.
      Cheese it! The cops!
      Cheese your patter!(= stop talking, shut up)
    2. (slang) Toanger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
      All this waiting around is reallycheesing me off.
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    Etymology 5

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    Fromcheesy.

    Verb

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    cheese (third-person singular simple presentcheeses,present participlecheesing,simple past and past participlecheesed)

    1. (Internetslang, gaming, ambitransitive) To use a controversial orunsportingtactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
      You cancheese most of the game using certain exploits.
      • 1993, Alex Werner,alt.games.sf2‎[4] (Usenet):
        The termcheesing is also pretty common. However, at least originally, ticking had a more specific meaning, ie hitting someone and then throwing after they block, whereascheesing would be anything "cheap", and thereore depended on the user [...]
      • 2000, cyber...@my-deja.com,rec.games.miniatures.warhammer‎[5] (Usenet):
        The moral of the story is, real strategy doesn't apply in WH40K. Find out where your opponentcheesed himself up and hit him there with everything you've got.
      • 2001, Samiel,rec.sport.billiard‎[6] (Usenet):
        "Cheesing" means to shoot for the 9-ball (in 9-ball) before being on the 9-ball (i.e. shooting at the 1-ball to hit the 9-ball in). Basically if you can do it, you'll win the game (but perhaps not much respect).
      • 2008, Reed Stevens, Tom Satwicz, Laurie McCarthy, “In-Game, In-Room, In-World: Reconnecting Video Game Play to the Rest of Kids’ Lives”, in Katie Salen, editor,The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning), Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press,→DOI, page54:
        For example, he was accused of "cheating" when he modified his in-game play techniques—without the use of cheat codes—but in ways that were unexpected to his opponents. Taking these actions (calledcheesing by some in game play discourse) was unexpected, because the actions diverged from courses of action perceived as normal in the real-world activity the game simulated.
    2. (video games, slang) To use anunconventional,all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially forreal-time strategy games).
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    • (use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game):rush,zerg

    Middle English

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    Etymology 1

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    Noun

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    cheese

    1. Alternative form ofchese

    Etymology 2

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    Verb

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    cheese

    1. Alternative form ofchesen
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