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cheeseheads

cheeseheads is the plural 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

Questions about cheeseheads

What is cheeseheads the plural of?
Cheeseheads is the plural of cheesehead.

Words near cheeseheads in the dictionary

  1. cheesegrater
  2. cheesegraters
  3. cheesehamburger
  4. cheesehamburgers
  5. cheesehead
  6. cheeseheads
  7. cheesehopper
  8. cheeselep
  9. cheeseleps
  10. cheeseless
  11. cheeselessness

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