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cheese-head

cheese-head is the alternative form of cheesehead.

Meaning of cheesehead

Noun

cheesehead (plural cheeseheads)

  1. (US, slang) A person from the state of Wisconsin.
  2. (slang) A fan of the Green Bay Packers (an American football team of Wisconsin), some of whom wear foam hats shaped like wedges of cheese.
  3. (derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur) A German, Dutch, or Scandinavian person.
  4. (derogatory, slang) A blockhead, a stupid person.
  5. (slang) A white person from the Netherlands or having Dutch heritage.
    • "Return to those cheesheads? Sacre/ nom de tonnerre! never!" the Walloon cried energetically.1887, Michael Theophile Hubert Perelaer, Ran Away from the Dutch: Or, Borneo from South to North, page 61
  6. (slang) Someone who eats a lot of cheese.
    • Having spent several days eating rich cheese dishes while observing that the Swiss are, in general, a slim and fit population — so unlike the cheeseheads I've known at home — I had to ask: "Just how much cheese do you eat?"July 1993, Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin, "Say Cheese!" in Vegetarian Times, No. 191, p. 85

Forms of cheese-head

pluralcheese-heads

Questions about cheese-head

What is cheese-head the alternative form of?
Cheese-head is the alternative form of cheesehead.

Words near cheese-head in the dictionary

  1. cheese-eater
  2. cheese-eaters
  3. cheese-eating
  4. cheese-eating surrender monkey
  5. cheese-eating surrender monkeys
  6. cheese-head
  7. cheese-heads
  8. cheese-less
  9. cheeseable
  10. cheeseball
  11. cheeseballs

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