cheese
2
[ cheez ]
/ tʃiz /
verb (used with object), cheesed, chees·ing. Slang.
to stop; desist.
Idioms for cheese
- look out!
- run away!
cheese it,
Origin of cheese
2
First recorded in 1805–15; perhaps alteration of
cease
Words nearby cheese
cheerless,
cheerly,
cheero,
cheers,
cheery,
cheese,
cheese cutter,
cheese eater,
cheese fries,
cheese it,
cheese mite
British Dictionary definitions for cheese it (1 of 2)
cheese
1
/ (tʃiːz) /
noun
the curd of milk separated from the whey and variously prepared as a food
a mass or complete cake of this substance
any of various substances of similar consistency, etc
lemon cheese
big cheese slang
an important person
as alike as chalk and cheese or as different as chalk and cheese See chalk (def. 6)
Word Origin for cheese
Old English
cēse, from Latin
cāseus cheese; related to Old Saxon
kāsi
British Dictionary definitions for cheese it (2 of 2)
cheese
2
/ (tʃiːz) /
verb slang
(tr)
to stop; desist
(intr) prison slang
to act in a grovelling manner
Word Origin for cheese
C19: of unknown origin
Idioms and Phrases with cheese it (1 of 2)
cheese it
Stop, look out, as in Cheese it! Here come the cops! This term, generally stated as an imperative, may have been a replacement for the earlier “Stop at once.” Eric Partridge speculated that it may have been a corruption of Cease! but its true origin is not known. [Slang; mid-1800s]
Idioms and Phrases with cheese it (2 of 2)
cheese