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cheeses
We have found lemma(root) word of cheeses : cheese.
Definitions
[tʃiːz], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a food made from the pressed curds of milk, firm and elastic or soft and semi-liquid in texture
(e.g: grated cheese)
- the quality of being too obviously sentimental
(e.g: the conversations tend too far towards cheese)
- (especially in hip-hop lyrics) money
(e.g: I need the moola, the cash, gotta have that cheese)
Phrases:
- hard cheese
- say cheese
Origin
:
Old English cēse, cȳse, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch kaas and German Käse; from Latin caseus
[tʃiːz], (Verb)
Definitions:
- exasperate, frustrate, or bore (someone)
(e.g: I got a bit cheesed off with the movie)
Phrases:
- cheese it!
Origin
:
early 19th century (in the archaic phrase cheese it, used to urge someone to stop doing something): the current use dates from the 1940s. Both uses are of uncertain origin
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