cheeser

English

Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#CHEESERCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#CHEESER cheser; equivalent to cheese + -erCategory:English terms suffixed with -er (occupation)#CHEESER. The smile is said to resemble the uniform white coloration of cheese, or possibly related to the phrase say cheese.

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Noun

cheeser (plural cheesers)Category:English lemmas#CHEESERCategory:English nouns#CHEESERCategory:English countable nouns#CHEESERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CHEESERCategory:Pages with entries#CHEESERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CHEESER

  1. Someone who makes or sells cheese.
  2. Someone who adds cheese to a pizza in an assembly line.
    • 1986, Tom Monaghan, Robert Anderson, Pizza Tiger, page 269:
      But Terry Voice was the best pizza cheeser I've ever seen.
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    • 2011, Pasquale Gagliardi, Symbols and Artifacts: Views of the Corporate Landscape, page 276:
      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 the cheese seem to flow like liquid and spread evenly over the entire pie.
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    • 2012, Pete Hautman, Rash, page 103:
      The tosser is at the far left, then the saucer, then the cheeser, then the shooter.
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  3. (slangCategory:English slang#CHEESER) A broad gleeful grin.
  4. (slangCategory:English slang#CHEESER) A jovial greeting.
  5. (slangCategory:English slang#CHEESER) A senior or geezer.
  6. (prison slangCategory:English prison slang#CHEESER) An inmate of a borstal who tries to ingratiate himself with the staff.
    • 1959, Archives of Criminal Psychodynamics, page 453:
      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.
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    • 1973, A. E. Bottoms, Frederick Hemming McClintock, Criminals Coming of Age, page 163:
      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'.
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    • 1986, John Roger Scott Whiting, Roger Whiting, Crime and Punishment: A Study Across Time, page 188:
      Cheesers were those who sucked up to the staff.
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  7. (by extension, derogatoryCategory:English derogatory terms#CHEESER) Someone who is immature.
  8. A cocktail sandwich made with cheese.
  9. (UKCategory:British English#CHEESER, dialectCategory:English dialectal terms#CHEESER) A conker, especially one with a flat side.
    • 1967, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, The Sands of Valor, page 78:
      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 cowboy “sixgun".
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    • 1994, Hamilton Crane, Miss Seeton Undercover, page 214:
      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.
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    • 2010, John Sidney Rickerby, The Other Belfast: An Irish Youth, page 95:
      We would all collect the largest and hardest cheesers we could find.
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  10. (slangCategory:English slang#CHEESER) A particularly strong-smelling fart.
  11. (textilesCategory:en:Textiles#CHEESER) A small spool that is used in the finishing stage of yarn-making.

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