cheese

Cheese for sale in a market.

Meanings

A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
Any particular variety of cheese.
A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
Money.
In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
A fastball.
A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
Smegma.
Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia (species)) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
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.
Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.

To prepare curds for making cheese.
To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
To smile excessively, as for a camera.
To stop; to refrain from.
To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
To use an unsporting tactic; to repeatedly use an attack which is overpowered or difficult to counter.
To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).

From Middle English chese, from Old English ċīese, specifically the Anglian form ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. queso.
Though commonly claimed to be a borrowing of Persian چیز, the term does not occur earliest in Anglo-Indian sources, but instead is "well recorded in British and Australian sources from the 1840s onwards".
Etymology unknown. Possibly an alteration of cease.
From cheesy.

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