Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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intj
Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: arts, hobbies, lifestyle, photography
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name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Any particular variety of cheese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, uncountable
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noun
A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, uncountable
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noun
Money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
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Synonyms: cheddar
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noun
In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable
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noun
A fastball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
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noun
Smegma.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable, vulgar
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noun
Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, technology
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noun
A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A low curtsey; 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
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noun
The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: British, India, dated, slang, uncountable
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noun
The exploitation, or opportunity for exploitation, of an unintentional video game mechanic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: games, gaming
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verb
To prepare curds for making cheese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, technology
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verb
To smile excessively, as for a camera.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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verb
To stop; to refrain from.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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verb
To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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verb
To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, ambitransitive
Topics: games, gaming
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verb
To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: video-games
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noun
a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: food, solid food, dairy product
Narrower terms: cream cheese, triple cream, triple creme, cottage cheese, pot cheese, farm cheese, farmer's cheese, process cheese, processed cheese, bleu, blue cheese, Brie, brick cheese, Camembert, cheddar, cheddar cheese, Armerican cheddar, American cheese, Cheshire cheese, double Gloucester, Edam, goat cheese, chevre, Gouda, Gouda cheese, grated cheese, hand cheese, Liederkranz, Limburger, mozzarella, Muenster, Parmesan, quark cheese, quark, ricotta, string cheese, Swiss cheese, Velveeta
noun
erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: tall mallow, high mallow, cheeseflower, Malva sylvestris
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mallow
verb
wind onto a cheese
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: spool
verb
used in the imperative (get away, or stop it)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off
History
Perhaps an alteration of cheers.
Etymology tree Latin cāseusbor. Proto-Germanic *kāsijaz Proto-West Germanic *kāsī Old English ċīese Middle English chese English cheese From Middle English chese, from Anglian Old English ċīese, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Síes (“cheese”), West Frisian tsiis (“cheese”), Dutch kaas (“cheese”), German Low German Kees (“cheese”), German Käse (“cheese”).
Though commonly claimed to be a borrowing of Persian چیز (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".
From cheesy.
Etymology unknown. Possibly an alteration of cease.
Across languages
443 source translations are retained for this English entry.
