cheeser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
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.
Base: cheese
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: cheesers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who makes or sells cheese.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
[…] heard the cries of poultry dealers, cheesers, and medicine men.
A tractor motor started up; […] the cheeser’s arms carried on grabbing pails of milk and pouring the white flow by the hundredweight into weighing pans and cooling basins […]
gloss: Someone who adds cheese to a pizza in an assembly line.
pos: noun
examples: But Terry Voice was the best pizza cheeser I've ever seen.
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.
The tosser is at the far left, then the saucer, then the cheeser, then the shooter.
gloss: A broad gleeful grin.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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.
Rene swung around and saw his youngest, Miguel, standing there in his underwear, a big cheeser spreading across his face.
gloss: A jovial greeting.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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.
gloss: A senior or geezer.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: But you'll want to marry someone your own age, not some old cheeser.
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.
gloss: An inmate of a borstal who tries to ingratiate himself with the staff.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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.
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'.
Cheesers were those who sucked up to the staff.
gloss: Someone who is immature.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
derogatory
examples: It's 'cause some cheeser had to throw paper.
Oh, Brian, you are such a cheeser!
Any cheesers that get near this will skulk away in shame once they realize we don't tolerate cheesers.
In our measly little clique, we had one cheeser, who ended up following me all the way to Plantation Grove College.
gloss: A cocktail sandwich made with cheese.
pos: noun
examples: Tom had made toasted cheese sandwiches, or toasted “cheesers,” as he called them.
gloss: A conker, especially one with a flat side.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
examples: 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".
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.
We would all collect the largest and hardest cheesers we could find.
gloss: A particularly strong-smelling fart.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "It's a cheeser!" Potter gasped loudly, his little fish-eyes bulging. "God damn! It is a cheeser!
gloss: A small spool that is used in the finishing stage of yarn-making.
pos: noun
examples: After the twisting is completed the finished yarn is wound on small spools, known as cheesers, to be weighed.
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.
Spinners and winders, coners and cheesers
Synonyms: oldster
senior citizen
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: banan
lang: Spanish
word: sonrizón
lang: Galician
word: queixeiro
lang: Spanish
word: quesero
lang: Spanish
word: viejujo