Cheese Definition
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Etymology 1
From Middle English chese, from Old English cēse, cȳse (“cheese”), from West Germanic *kāsjus (compare West Frisian tsiis, Dutch kaas, German Käse), from Latin cāseus (“cheese”), from Proto-Indo-European *kwat- (“to ferment, become sour”) (compare Old English hwaþerian (“to roar, foam, surge”), Swedish dialect hvå (“foam”), Latvian kūsāt (“to boil”), Old Church Slavonic kvasŭ 'leaven; sour drink', Sanskrit kváthati 'it boils').
Noun
cheese (usually uncountable; plural cheeses)
- (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
- (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
- (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
- (uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
- (uncountable, slang) Money.
- (countable, slang, baseball) A fastball.
- (uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
- (vulgar, slang) Smegma.
Hyponyms
- See also Wikisaurus:cheese
Derived terms
terms derived from “cheese”
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Translations
dairy product
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See also
- Cheese on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Cheese (recreational drug) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Cheese (recreational drug)
- butter
- cream
- milk
- turophile
- yoghurt
Verb
to cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)
- To prepare curds for making cheese.
Interjection
cheese!
- (photography) to obtain a smile from the subject who utters it
- Say cheese ! …and there we are !
Etymology 2
Probably from Persian چيز (čīz, “thing”).
Noun
cheese (uncountable)
- (slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
Derived terms
- big cheese
- sub-cheese
Etymology 3
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Verb
to cheese (third-person singular simple present cheeses, present participle cheesing, simple past and past participle cheesed)
- (slang) To stop; to refrain from.
- (slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
- All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.
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How much cheese is it advisable to eat each day?
Q. I am a moderate eater of cheese. To an extent the consumption of cheese is good for us, but since it is pure fat, how much is too much?
Asked by . - Thu Jul 3 10:25:41 2008 - Diet & Fitness - 1 Answers - Comments
A. Cheese also has a lot of sodium, which is bad. An ounce of cheese is a square 1 inch by 1 inch or 1 slice. not much, huh and one ounce of American cheese has 6.9 grams of fat. It is recommended that in a 1500 calorie diet to only have 40 to 50 fat grams all day. So that 1 ounce of cheese is like 15% or more of the total fat for one day. Try low fat cheeses, but still watch the sodium. The old FDA food pyramid is still the best. 1 ounce equals a serving and it recommends 2-3 servings per day. if you go to this site and put in your info it will be more specific for you.
Answered by april T - Thu Jul 3 10:30:48 2008
Q. I am a moderate eater of cheese. To an extent the consumption of cheese is good for us, but since it is pure fat, how much is too much?
Asked by . - Thu Jul 3 10:25:41 2008 - Diet & Fitness - 1 Answers - Comments
A. Cheese also has a lot of sodium, which is bad. An ounce of cheese is a square 1 inch by 1 inch or 1 slice. not much, huh and one ounce of American cheese has 6.9 grams of fat. It is recommended that in a 1500 calorie diet to only have 40 to 50 fat grams all day. So that 1 ounce of cheese is like 15% or more of the total fat for one day. Try low fat cheeses, but still watch the sodium. The old FDA food pyramid is still the best. 1 ounce equals a serving and it recommends 2-3 servings per day. if you go to this site and put in your info it will be more specific for you.
Answered by april T - Thu Jul 3 10:30:48 2008
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