Word: cheeser Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English cheser; equivalent to cheese + -er. The smile is said to resemble the uniform white coloration of cheese, or possibly related to the phrase say cheese. Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃizɚ/, /ˈt͡ʃiːzə/ 1. Someone who makes or sells cheese. Example: With Swiss farmers, Swiss cheesers, Swiss merchants, the best of grasses and water, and intelligent management, it cannot fail to produce an article which has reduced importation of foreign cheese to a minimum. Example: We took off our long, white cheesers' coats and hung them on the knobs of Edam, which is a Dutch cheese made of cows' milk with about forty per cent fat content and bright red outside. 2. Someone who adds cheese to a pizza in an assembly line. Example: But Terry Voice was the best pizza cheeser I've ever seen. Example: 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. 3. A broad gleeful grin. Labels: slang Example: I looked at his normally deadpan face and saw the faintest outline of a smile tugging at the corners of his mouth, a cheeser grin on anyone else. Example: Rene swung around and saw his youngest, Miguel, standing there in his underwear, a big cheeser spreading across his face. 4. A jovial greeting. Labels: slang Example: Got to be a good sign though, so Click rigged out a cheeser of his own and said brightly, "Mornin', Mr. Brewster," underlining it with the molar squeak. 5. A senior or geezer. Labels: slang Example: But you'll want to marry someone your own age, not some old cheeser. Example: And I suppose it wasn't you mucking about on that damp slab, breathing heavy and saying you would consider it an honor and a privilege to be lying with me under this sod in eternal bliss, surrounded by all these distinguished cheesers. 6. An inmate of a borstal who tries to ingratiate himself with the staff. Labels: slang Example: 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. Example: 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'. 7. Someone who is immature. Labels: broadly, derogatory Example: It's 'cause some cheeser had to throw paper. Example: Oh, Brian, you are such a cheeser! 8. A cocktail sandwich made with cheese. Example: Tom had made toasted cheese sandwiches, or toasted “cheesers,” as he called them. 9. A conker, especially one with a flat side. Labels: UK, dialectal Example: 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". Example: 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. 10. A particularly strong-smelling fart. Labels: slang Example: "It's a cheeser!" Potter gasped loudly, his little fish-eyes bulging. "God damn! It is a cheeser! 11. A small spool that is used in the finishing stage of yarn-making. Example: After the twisting is completed the finished yarn is wound on small spools, known as cheesers, to be weighed. Example: By means of a special automatic cheeser, a sufficient number of balls — say, 64 — are built up to fill a creel, from which they are run into the next machine.