cheese
noun
[ tʃiːz ]
• a food made from the pressed curds of milk, firm and elastic or soft and semi-liquid in texture.
• "grated cheese"
• the quality of being too obviously sentimental.
• "the conversations tend too far towards cheese"
Origin:
Old English cēse, cȳse, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch kaas and German Käse ; from Latin caseus .
cheese
verb
• exasperate, frustrate, or bore (someone).
• "I got a bit cheesed off with the movie"
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.
say cheese
• said by a photographer to encourage the subject to smile.
