cheddar
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Definition of cheddar
6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
name
- A large village and civil parish, previously in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England, famous for its cheese, and also for its gorge, caves and remains of early man found in them (OS grid ref ST4553).
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name
- A large village and civil parish, previously in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England, famous for its cheese, and also for its gorge, caves and remains of early man found in them (OS grid ref ST4553).
- A ghost town in Highlands East municipality, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
noun
- (countable, uncountable)Cheddar cheese.
- (countable, uncountable)A cheese styled after the Cheddar cheese made in Cheddar.
-
(countable, slang, uncountable)Money, cash, currency.
“Touch my cheddar, feel my Beretta.”
verb
- (transitive)To cut and press cheese so as to remove the whey and leave drier curds.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English Ceodre, likely from the word ceodor (“cavity, pouch; ravine”), as there is a gorge near the town.
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