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cheeseball

cheeseball noun: a spherical mass of cheese or cream cheese, often including nuts or other additions and served as an hors d'oeuvre or finger food, usually with bread or crackers.

cheeseball: a spherical mass of cheese or cream cheese, often including nuts or other additions and served as...
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Noun

cheeseball (plural cheeseballs)

  1. A spherical mass of cheese or cream cheese, often including nuts or other additions and served as an hors d'oeuvre or finger food, usually with bread or crackers.
  2. The tree Glochidion ferdinandi.
  3. (derogatory, slang) Someone cheesy, lacking taste or style.

Adjective

cheeseball (comparative more cheeseball, superlative most cheeseball)

  1. (derogatory, slang) Cheesy, lacking taste or style.
    • I want to watch me some Manimal. A guy that can turn into animals, that's so cheeseball.2015, Beast Boy, “Oil Drums”, in Teen Titans Go!

cheeseball meaning in Tamil

cheeseball in Tamil

சுவை

Forms of cheeseball

Noun
pluralcheeseballs
Adjective
comparativemore cheeseball
superlativemost cheeseball

Origin of cheeseball

From cheese + ball.

Questions about cheeseball

What does cheeseball mean?
Cheeseball means a spherical mass of cheese or cream cheese, often including nuts or other additions and served as an hors d'oeuvre or finger food, usually with bread or crackers.
What is cheeseball in Tamil?
Cheeseball in Tamil is சுவை. See Cheeseball meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cheeseball?
Cheeseball can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of cheeseball?
The plural of cheeseball is cheeseballs.

Words near cheeseball in the dictionary

  1. cheese-eating surrender monkeys
  2. cheese-head
  3. cheese-heads
  4. cheese-less
  5. cheeseable
  6. cheeseball
  7. cheeseballs
  8. cheeseboard
  9. cheeseboards
  10. Cheeseboro
  11. Cheeseboros

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cheeseball (page history and authors); cheeseball (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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