Cheesen

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (Dorset, East Anglia, archaic or obsolete) plural of cheese
2. (rare) Made of cheese

Example Sentences

Stap hather, cozen Magery, a lite, and tern these cheesen.

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.

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.”

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