cheese Definition

cheese¹
noun

1. A solid or soft creamy food that is prepared from the curds of milk.
2. A wheel-shaped solid mass of this substance.
3. A flavoured food with the consistency of soft cheese, eg lemon cheese.

Idiom: cheesed off

(rit)
dated slang
Fed up or annoyed.

Idiom: hard cheese!

(rit)
slang
Bad luck!

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon cyse, from Latin caseus.

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cheese²
noun

slang:
1. An important person.

Etymology: 19c: perhaps from Urdu chiz thing.