You can make 22 words from cheese according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
Definitions and meaning of cheese
cheese
Pronunciation
enPR: chēz, IPA(key): /t͡ʃiːz/
(General American) IPA(key): /t͡ʃiz/
Rhymes: -iːz
Homophone: qis
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishchese, from Old Englishċīese, specifically the Anglian form ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic*kāsī, borrowed from Latincāseus. Doublet of queso.
Cognate with Saterland FrisianSíes(“cheese”), West Frisiantsiis(“cheese”), Dutchkaas(“cheese”), German Low GermanKees(“cheese”), GermanKäse(“cheese”).
Noun
cheese (countable and uncountable, pluralcheesesor(archaic)cheesen)
(uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
(countable) Any particular variety of cheese.
(countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
(uncountable, UK) A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
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 ... as Also the Most Approved Method of Making Cheeses, Puddings, Cakes &c. in 250 Cheap and Fashionable Receipts. The Result of Many Years Experience with the Celebrated Negri and Witten. United Kingdom: reprinted, for Richard Scott and sold at his bookstore, no. 243 Pearl-street.
p.82-3, No.244. Damson Cheese: “Pick the damsons free from stalks···You may make plum or bullace cheese in the same way···”
A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
(uncountable, colloquial) That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
(uncountable, slang) Money.
(countable, UK) In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
(uncountable, slang, baseball) A fastball.
(uncountable, slang) A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
(vulgar, slang) Smegma.
(technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
2006, US Patent 7458053, International Business Machines Corporation
It is known in the art to insert features that are electrically inactive (“fill structures”) into a layout to increase layout pattern density or and to remove features from the layout (“cheese structures”) to decrease layout pattern density.
A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
Synonyms
(product):See Thesaurus:cheese
(money):See Thesaurus:money
Antonyms
(antonym(s) of “circuitry”):fill(“dummy pattern to increase pattern density”)
Hyponyms
(dairy product):See Thesaurus:cheese
Derived terms
Descendants
Tok Pisin: sis
Borrowings
Translations
See also
cheese on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Cheese (recreational drug) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
butter
cream
milk
turophile
yogurt
Verb
cheese (third-person singular simple presentcheeses, present participlecheesing, simple past and past participlecheesed)
To prepare curds for making cheese.
(technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
(slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.
Derived terms
cheese up
Etymology 2
Perhaps an alteration of cheers.
Interjection
cheese!
(photography)Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.
Derived terms
say cheese
Descendants
→ Icelandic: sís
→ Japanese: チーズ(chīzu)
Translations
Etymology 3
Though commonly claimed to be a borrowing of Persianچیز(čiz, “thing”), the term does not occur earliest in Anglo-Indian sources, but instead is "well recorded in British and Australian sources from the 1840s onwards".
Noun
cheese (uncountable)
(slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
(slang, dated, British India) The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.
Derived terms
big cheese
sub-cheese
References
Etymology 4
Etymology unknown. Possibly an alteration of cease.
Verb
cheese (third-person singular simple presentcheeses, present participlecheesing, simple past and past participlecheesed)
(slang) To stop; to refrain from.
(slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
Derived terms
cheese it
cheesed off
Etymology 5
From cheesy.
Verb
cheese (third-person singular simple presentcheeses, present participlecheesing, simple past and past participlecheesed)
(Internet slang, gaming, transitive, intransitive) To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
(video games, slang) To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).
Synonyms
(use a surprise all-in strategy early in a game):rush, zerg