cheeser

Noun

cheeser (plural cheesers)

1. Someone who makes or sells cheese.
   • With Swiss farmers, Swiss cheesers, Swiss merchants, the best of grasses and water, and intelligent management, it cannot fail to produce an article which has reduced importation of foreign cheese to a minimum.1899, John Luchsinger, The History of a Great Industry, page 230
   • We took off our long, white cheesers' coats and hung them on the knobs of Edam, which is a Dutch cheese made of cows' milk with about forty per cent fat content and bright red outside.1961, Richard Condon, A Talent for Loving: Or, The Great Cowboy Race, page 22

   Synonyms:

   affineur, cheesemaker, cheesemonger, fromager

2. Someone who adds cheese to a pizza in an assembly line.
   • But Terry Voice was the best pizza cheeser I've ever seen.1986, Tom Monaghan, Robert Anderson, Pizza Tiger, page 269
   • Skillfully done, cheesers are able to grab just the right amount of cheese from the tray and distribute it on the sauced surface of the pizza so that it is uniform in thickness and covers the layer of sauce right up to the edge. The best cheesers use a wrist motion, like dealing cards, that makes...2011, Pasquale Gagliardi, Symbols and Artifacts: Views of the Corporate Landscape, page 276
3. (slang) A broad gleeful grin.
   • I looked at his normally deadpan face and saw the faintest outline of a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth, a cheeser grin on anyone else.1977, Llyod Pye, That Prosser Kid, link
   • Rene swung around and saw his youngest, Miguel, standing there in his underwear, a big cheeser spreading across his face.2014, D Ramirez, Dreaming by Day (short stories) and Salvation Island (novel excerpt)

   Synonyms:

   shit-eating grin

4. (slang) A jovial greeting.
   • Got to be a good sign though, so Click rigged out a cheeser of his own and said brightly, "Mornin', Mr. Brewster," underlining it with the molar squeak.1994, Tom Kakonis, Shadow Counter
5. (slang) A senior or geezer.
   • But you'll want to marry someone your own age, not some old cheeser.1994, Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of you, page 259
   • And I suppose it wasn't you mucking about on that damp slab, breathing heavy and saying you would consider it an honor and a privilege to be lying with me under this sod in eternal bliss, surrounded by all these distinguished cheesers.1999, Philip Hamburger, Friends Talking in the Night, page 159

   Synonyms:

   geriatric

6. (slang) An inmate of a borstal who tries to ingratiate himself with the staff.
   • The boys tend not to discuss their individual complaints with the cottage staff because of lack of time or privacy, because the staff must treat all boys the same, and because the boys fear being called “cheesers” if they attempt to cultivate a close relationship with the staff.1959, Archives of Criminal Psychodynamics, page 453
   • Interestingly , `cheesers' were usually despised by the majority of inmates, and by no means only by the 'daddy' and his surrounding clique of 'hard men'.1973, A. E. Bottoms, Frederick Hemming McClintock, Criminals Coming of Age, page 163
7. (broadly, derogatory) Someone who is immature.
   • It's 'cause some cheeser had to throw paper.1993, Eugene Robert Shaw, Inside the Bargain, page 124
   • Oh, Brian, you are such a cheeser!1994, Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, page 506
8. A cocktail sandwich made with cheese.
   • Tom had made toasted cheese sandwiches, or toasted “cheesers,” as he called them.2011, Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Gazebo: A Faith Fairchild Mystery, page 173
9. (UK, dialectal) A conker, especially one with a flat side.
   • It had been the same in another bedroom, too high for pleasure in those days, with its ornate grate and bedside table of shining walnut, on which the loot of his boyhood days looked guiltily out-of-place—lead soldiers, squashed toffees, lengths of string, cheesers, marbles, odd catapult parts, one...1967, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, The Sands of Valor, page 78
   • There were sniggers from the Plummergen spectators as they saw that the conker dangling from the string in his hand was a cheeser, one of the awkward, wedge-shaped nuts produced when two or more horse chestnuts developed inside the same prickly husk.1994, Hamilton Crane, Miss Seeton Undercover, page 214
10. (slang) A particularly strong-smelling fart.
    • "It's a cheeser!" Potter gasped loudly, his little fish-eyes bulging. "God damn! It is a cheeser!1978, Donald Zochert, Murder in the Hellfire Club, page 135
11. A small spool that is used in the finishing stage of yarn-making.
    • After the twisting is completed the finished yarn is wound on small spools, known as cheesers, to be weighed.1920, Pacific Ports - Volume 3, page 64
    • By means of a special automatic cheeser, a sufficient number of balls — say, 64 — are built up to fill a creel, from which they are run into the next machine.1921, The Wool Year Book - Volume 14, page 275