chz

Noun

cheese (countable and uncountable, plural cheeses or (archaic) cheesen)

1. (uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
2. (countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
3. (countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
   • He had a gloating expression on his face, and was perseveringly rolling a large cheese along the middle of the road.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 153
4. (UK, uncountable) A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
   • p.82-3, No.244. Damson Cheese: “Pick the damsons free from stalks···You may make plum or bullace cheese in the same way···”1807, Nutt, F. (1807). The Complete Confectioner: Or, The Whole Art of Confectionary Made Easy: Containing, Among a Variety of Useful Matter, the Art of Making the Various Kinds of Biscuits, Drops...
5. A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
6. (colloquial, uncountable) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
   • It's time to add some cheese to this action burger! Every genre has them, everybody loves them ... it's the parodies!2012, Katrina Hill, Action Movie Freak, page 117

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