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pickcheese

pickcheese noun: the blue tit.

Noun

pickcheese (plural pickcheeses)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) The blue tit.
  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) The fruit of the mallow.

Forms of pickcheese

pluralpickcheeses

Origin of pickcheese

From pick + cheese. The bird is so called because it would steal from dairies.

Questions about pickcheese

What does pickcheese mean?
Pickcheese means the blue tit.
What part of speech is pickcheese?
Pickcheese is a noun.
What is the plural of pickcheese?
The plural of pickcheese is pickcheeses.

Words near pickcheese in the dictionary

  1. pickaxes
  2. pickaxing
  3. pickback
  4. Pickburn
  5. pickchah
  6. pickcheese
  7. pickcheeses
  8. pickchuh
  9. picked
  10. picked a fight
  11. picked a hole in someone's coat

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