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sub-cheese

sub-cheese noun: everything; all there is.

Noun

sub-cheese

  1. (archaic, slang) Everything; all there is.
    • Another inch further over would have precipitated the whole sub cheeze, down the incline.1859, P. & O., Always Ready, or, Every One His Pride, London: Hall, Virtue, & Co., page 175
    • 'She's as clever as a man, confound her,' Martyn went on. 'She broke up the bungalow over my head while I was talking at her. Settled the whole subchiz [outfit] in three hours—servants, horses, and all. I didn't get my orders till nine.'1898, Rudyard Kipling, “William the Conqueror: Part I”, in The Day's Work, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 181

Forms of sub-cheese

alternative formsubcheese
alternative formsubcheeze
alternative formsubchiz

Origin of sub-cheese

Borrowed from Hindi सब (sab, “all, every”) + Hindi चीज़ (cīz, “thing, object, item”), respelled in a folk-etymological identification with sub- + cheese.

Questions about sub-cheese

What does sub-cheese mean?
Sub-cheese means everything; all there is.
What part of speech is sub-cheese?
Sub-cheese is a noun.

Words near sub-cheese in the dictionary

  1. sub-brown dwarfs
  2. sub-Byzantine
  3. Sub-Carpathian Rus
  4. sub-categories
  5. sub-category
  6. sub-cheese
  7. sub-clan
  8. sub-clans
  9. sub-class
  10. sub-classes
  11. sub-clinical

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