ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Cheesen

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Cheesen is a noun meaning (Dorset, East Anglia, archaic or obsolete) plural of cheese.

Meaning

(Dorset, East Anglia, archaic or obsolete) plural of cheese.

More Meanings

  1. (rare) Made of cheese

Example Sentences

Stap hather, cozen Magery, a lite, and tern these cheesen.
we always had to eat the lake pinder in the baskets; orange cheesen from the cowlies and bloonberries in every hillside hatch; […]
News of the cheese provoked similar reactions from other Federalists, whose sharp pronouncements mirrored the fervor with which Republicans praised Leland's gesture. One writer, prior to the departure from Cheshire of the “enormous” tribute, claimed to have witnessed in that town “a ludicrous procession, in honor of a cheesen God.”
This was the poorer sort of Dorset cheese, made of milk skimmed once, and sometimes twice; but the richer kind of mouldy cheesen, into which a portion of cream entered, was almost equal to Stilton, holding a place midway between that and the fashionable foreign makes known as Roquefort and Gorgonzola, but it is little made nowadays, and may be deemed extinct, as are also those thin cheeses which used to be made in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, and known as single Gloucester, or toasting-cheese.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cream-cheesy, parmesaned, mornay, chived, creamy, semese.

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