[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