cheeses
- 1Plural of cheese. Use it when talking about more than one kind or block of cheese.
The shop sells a dozen different cheeses from local farms.
We tasted several cheeses before picking one for the party.
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- 2Third-person singular present of cheese. Use it for what one person or thing does now.
His constant bragging cheeses everyone off at the table.
It really cheeses her off when people show up late.
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- 3Euphemistic form of Jesus. A gentler way to shout in surprise without saying the name.
Oh, cheeses, I left the stove on!
Cheeses, that car nearly hit us!
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- 4A wild plant with soft pink or white flowers and round, flat seed pods, also called common mallow.
Like a weed whose tiny flat fruits look a bit like little wheels of cheese.
Cheeses grow along the roadside and have round little seed pods.
We found a patch of cheeses near the old stone wall.
Similarmallows
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cheeses is a form of cheese
cheese, noun: A food made from milk, such as cheddar or brie, or a whole round block of it. Full entry
- Forms
- cheesecheeses plural
- Spelling
- cheese → cheeses: add -s
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Origin
It comes from the fruit's shape, which was thought to look like rounds of cheese.