Cheesehead

Quick meaning: Cheesehead is a noun meaning (slang, US) A person from the state of Wisconsin.

Meaning

(slang, US) A person from the state of Wisconsin.

More Meanings

1. (slang) A fan of the Green Bay Packers (an American football team of Wisconsin), some of whom wear foam hats shaped like wedges of cheese.
2. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A German, Dutch, or Scandinavian person.
3. (slang, derogatory) A blockhead, a stupid person.
4. (slang, used in the European Union) A white person from the Netherlands or having Dutch heritage.
5. (slang) Someone who eats a lot of cheese.

Example Sentences

"Return to those cheesheads? Sacre/ nom de tonnerre! never!" the Walloon cried energetically.

Good News for Cheeseheads! Those of us in Bloomington who are fiends for good cheese have long faced a choice […]

Having spent several days eating rich cheese dishes while observing that the Swiss are, in general, a slim and fit population — so unlike the cheeseheads I've known at home — I had to ask: "Just how much cheese do you eat?"

But, alas! fate was against him, he could not gratify his desire for vengeance; but being forced to relieve his feelings in some way, he did so by indignantly shouting after their retreating figures, “ You Dutch cheeseheads, you!”

Word Forms

• cheeseheads
• cheese-head

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cheeser, dickcheese, cheesedick, beefhead, squarehead, weeniehead.

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