schmierkase

[shmeer-keyz, -key-zuh]

noun

1. cottage cheese.

Word History and Origins

Origin of schmierkase¹

1900–05; < German: literally, smear-cheese

Example Sentences

Put half a pound of ordinary schmierkase into a bowl, rub it perfectly smooth; add, a teaspoonful at a time, four tablespoonfuls of thick cream, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, half a teaspoonful of salt, and 50a saltspoonful of pepper.

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Babies smelling of camomile tea, cologne water, wet laundry, dog soap, Schmierkase.

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One finds also here and there a word from the "Pennsylvania Dutch," such as "waumus" for a loose jacket, from the German wamms, a doublet, and "smearcase" for cottage cheese, from the German schmierkäse.

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Schmierkäse German cottage cheese that becomes smearcase in America.

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Smearcase Old English corruption of German Schmierkäse, long used in America for cottage cheese.

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