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cheesed

[cheezd]
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adjective Chiefly British Slang.
  1. disgusted; fed up (usually followed by off).

Origin of cheesed

First recorded in 1940–45; origin obscure

cheese

1
[cheez]
noun
  1. the curd of milk separated from the whey and prepared in many ways as a food.
  2. a definite mass of this substance, often in the shape of a wheel or cylinder.
  3. something of similar shape or consistency, as a mass of pomace in cider-making.
  4. Informal. partly digested milk curds sometimes spit up by infants.
  5. cheeses, any of several mallows, especially Malva neglecta, a sprawling, weedy plant having small lavender or white flowers and round, flat, segmented fruits thought to resemble little wheels of cheese.
  6. Slang: Vulgar. smegma.
  7. Metalworking.
    1. a transverse section cut from an ingot, as for making into a tire.
    2. an ingot or billet made into a convex, circular form by blows at the ends.
  8. a low curtsy.
verb (used without object), cheesed, chees·ing.
  1. Informal. (of infants) to spit up partly digested milk curds.
verb (used with object), cheesed, chees·ing.
  1. (in a game, especially a video game) to win (a battle round) by using a strategy that requires minimal skill and knowledge or that exploits a glitch or flaw in game design: He cheesed the fight by trapping his enemy in the environment and attacking without taking damage.
  2. Metalworking. to forge (an ingot or billet) into a cheese.

Origin of cheese

1
before 1000; Middle English chese, Old English cēse (cognate with Old Saxon kāsi, German Käse) < Latin cāseus

cheese

2
[cheez]
verb (used with object), cheesed, chees·ing. Slang.
  1. to stop; desist.
Idioms
  1. cheese it,
    1. look out!
    2. run away!

Origin of cheese

2
First recorded in 1805–15; perhaps alteration of cease
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Related Words for cheesed

misinterpret, confuse, exaggerate, overstate, skew, misstate, distort, disguise, falsify, pervert, color, cloak, twist, dress, prevaricate, angle, stretch, equivocate, snow, pirate

Examples from the Web for cheesed

Historical Examples of cheesed

  • "The old gentleman was so mad he was all cheesed up," the pedlar was saying.

  • They go on with dreadful dishes of cabbage and preparations of milk, curdled, soured, and cheesed.

    The Art of Entertaining

    M. E. W. Sherwood

British Dictionary definitions for cheesed

cheese

1
noun
  1. the curd of milk separated from the whey and variously prepared as a food
  2. a mass or complete cake of this substance
  3. any of various substances of similar consistency, etclemon cheese
  4. big cheese slang an important person
  5. as alike as chalk and cheese or as different as chalk and cheese See chalk (def. 6)

Word Origin for cheese

Old English cēse, from Latin cāseus cheese; related to Old Saxon kāsi

cheese

2
verb slang
  1. (tr) to stop; desist
  2. (intr) prison slang to act in a grovelling manner

Word Origin for cheese

C19: of unknown origin
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Word Origin and History for cheesed
adj.

"disgruntled, exasperated," 1941, British slang, origin obscure, connections uncertain. See cheese (n.1), cheese (n.2), cheesy.

cheese

n.1

Old English cyse (West Saxon), cese (Anglian) "cheese," from West Germanic *kasjus (cf. Old Saxon kasi, Old High German chasi, German Käse, Middle Dutch case, Dutch kaas), from Latin caseus "cheese" (source of Italian cacio, Spanish queso, Irish caise, Welsh caws).

Of unknown origin; perhaps from a PIE root *kwat- "to ferment, become sour" (cf. Prakrit chasi "buttermilk;" Old Church Slavonic kvasu "leaven; fermented drink," kyselu "sour," -kyseti "to turn sour;" Czech kysati "to turn sour, rot;" Sanskrit kvathati "boils, seethes;" Gothic hwaþjan "foam"). Also cf. fromage. Old Norse ostr, Danish ost, Swedish ost are related to Latin ius "broth, sauce, juice."

Earliest references would be to compressed curds of milk used as food; pressed or molded cheeses with rinds are 14c. Transferred to other cheese-like substances by 1530s. As a photographer's word to make subjects hold a smile, it is attested from 1930, but in a reminiscence of schoolboy days, which suggests an earlier use. Probably for the forced smile involved in making the -ee- sound. Green cheese is that newly made; the notion that the moon is made of green cheese as a type of a ridiculous assertion is from 1520s. To make cheeses was a schoolgirls' amusement (1835) of wheeling rapidly so one's petticoats blew out in a circle then dropping down so they came to rest inflated and resembling a wheel of cheese; hence, used figuratively for "a deep curtsey."

cheese

n.2

"the proper thing," from Urdu chiz "a thing," from Persian chiz, from Old Persian *ciš-ciy "something," from PIE pronomial stem *kwo- (see who). Picked up by British in India by 1818 and used in the sense of "a big thing" (especially in the phrase the real chiz).

This perhaps is behind the expression big cheese "important person" (1914), but that is American English in origin and likely rather belongs to cheese (n.1). To cut a big cheese as a figurative expression for "look important" is recorded from 1915, and overlarge wheels of cheese, especially from Wisconsin, were commonly displayed 19c. as publicity stunts by retailers, etc.

The cheese will be on exhibition at the National Dairy Show at Chicago next week. President Taft will visit the show the morning of Monday, October thirtieth, and after his address he will be invited to cut the big cheese, which will then be distributed in small lots to visitors at the show. ["The Country Gentleman," Oct. 28, 1911]

cheese

v.

"stop (what one is doing), run off," 1812, thieves' slang, of uncertain origin. Meaning "to smile" is from 1930 (see cheese (n.1)). For meaning "to annoy," see cheesed.

CHEESE IT. Be silent, be quiet, don't do it. Cheese it, the coves are fly; be silent, the people understand our discourse. ["Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence," London, 1811]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Idioms and Phrases with cheesed

cheese

In addition to the idioms beginning with cheese

  • cheesed off
  • cheese it

also see:

  • big cheese
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