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cheese-eating

cheese-eating is the alternative form of cheese eating.

Meaning of cheese eating

Noun

cheese eating (uncountable)

  1. (attributive, often) The act of ratting on or informing.
    • This officer's cheese eating had gone as far as to earn him a position on the "Wall of Cheese" that a widely-respected veteran police officer created and maintained in his office some time before our study.2007, Carl B. Klockars, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, M.R. Haberfeld, Enhancing Police Integrity, page 71
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheese, eating.
    • To do this, we need information about you and your cheese eating habits.1992, Anna Marie Roberts, Sensory Attributes and Preferences for Cheddar Cheese, page 124

Adjective

cheese-eating (comparative more cheese-eating, superlative most cheese-eating)

  1. (informal) Superior and self-satisfied.
    • "You nailed him,” Sean says with a cheese-eating grin2007, Patrick Jones, Nailed, page 101
    • Once he finally stopped and stood still at the bottom of the bed, he looked over to find a big ole cheese-eating grin on his mother's face.2012, Janice Jones, From Sinner to Saint

Forms of cheese-eating

comparativemore cheese-eating
superlativemost cheese-eating

Words formed from cheese-eating

Phrases with cheese-eating

Questions about cheese-eating

What does cheese-eating mean?
Cheese-eating means superior and self-satisfied.
What is cheese-eating the alternative form of?
Cheese-eating is the alternative form of cheese eating.
What part of speech is cheese-eating?
Cheese-eating is an adjective.

Words near cheese-eating in the dictionary

  1. cheese with your wine
  2. cheese-box
  3. cheese-boxes
  4. cheese-eater
  5. cheese-eaters
  6. cheese-eating
  7. cheese-eating surrender monkey
  8. cheese-eating surrender monkeys
  9. cheese-head
  10. cheese-heads
  11. cheese-less

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cheese-eating (page history and authors); cheese eating (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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