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"text": "Skillfully done, cheesers are able to grab just the right amount of cheese from the tray and distribute it on the sauced surface of the pizza so that it is uniform in thickness and covers the layer of sauce right up to the edge. The best cheesers use a wrist motion, like dealing cards, that makes the cheese seem to flow like liquid and spread evenly over the entire pie.",
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"ref": "1994, Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of you, page 259",
"text": "But you'll want to marry someone your own age, not some old cheeser.",
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"ref": "1999, Philip Hamburger, Friends Talking in the Night, page 159",
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"ref": "1993, Eugene Robert Shaw, Inside the Bargain, page 124",
"text": "It's 'cause some cheeser had to throw paper.",
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"ref": "1994, Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, page 506",
"text": "Oh, Brian, you are such a cheeser!",
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"ref": "2011, Doug Depew, SAT & BAF!: Memories of a Tower Rat, page 96",
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"ref": "2012, Sheila L. Ramsey, Quest for a Gentleman: Sins of the First Freedom, page 8",
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"ref": "2011, Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Gazebo: A Faith Fairchild Mystery, page 173",
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"ref": "2010, John Sidney Rickerby, The Other Belfast: An Irish Youth, page 95",
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"ref": "1994, Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of you, page 259",
"text": "But you'll want to marry someone your own age, not some old cheeser.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1999, Philip Hamburger, Friends Talking in the Night, page 159",
"text": "And I suppose it wasn't you mucking about on that damp slab, breathing heavy and saying you would consider it an honor and a privilege to be lying with me under this sod in eternal bliss, surrounded by all these distinguished cheesers.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A senior or geezer."
],
"links": [
[
"senior",
"senior"
],
[
"geezer",
"geezer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A senior or geezer."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English prison slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1959, Archives of Criminal Psychodynamics, page 453",
"text": "The boys tend not to discuss their individual complaints with the cottage staff because of lack of time or privacy, because the staff must treat all boys the same, and because the boys fear being called “cheesers” if they attempt to cultivate a close relationship with the staff.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1973, A. E. Bottoms, Frederick Hemming McClintock, Criminals Coming of Age, page 163",
"text": "Interestingly , `cheesers' were usually despised by the majority of inmates, and by no means only by the 'daddy' and his surrounding clique of 'hard men'.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1986, John Roger Scott Whiting, Roger Whiting, Crime and Punishment: A Study Across Time, page 188",
"text": "Cheesers were those who sucked up to the staff.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An inmate of a borstal who tries to ingratiate himself with the staff."
],
"links": [
[
"prison",
"prison"
],
[
"slang",
"slang"
],
[
"inmate",
"inmate"
],
[
"borstal",
"borstal"
],
[
"ingratiate",
"ingratiate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(prison slang) An inmate of a borstal who tries to ingratiate himself with the staff."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English derogatory terms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1993, Eugene Robert Shaw, Inside the Bargain, page 124",
"text": "It's 'cause some cheeser had to throw paper.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Stephen King, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, page 506",
"text": "Oh, Brian, you are such a cheeser!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Doug Depew, SAT & BAF!: Memories of a Tower Rat, page 96",
"text": "Any cheesers that get near this will skulk away in shame once they realize we don't tolerate cheesers.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Sheila L. Ramsey, Quest for a Gentleman: Sins of the First Freedom, page 8",
"text": "In our measly little clique, we had one cheeser, who ended up following me all the way to Plantation Grove College.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Someone who is immature."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"immature",
"immature"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension, derogatory) Someone who is immature."
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"derogatory"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2011, Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Gazebo: A Faith Fairchild Mystery, page 173",
"text": "Tom had made toasted cheese sandwiches, or toasted “cheesers,” as he called them.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A cocktail sandwich made with cheese."
],
"links": [
[
"cocktail sandwich",
"cocktail sandwich"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"British English",
"English dialectal terms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1967, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner, The Sands of Valor, page 78",
"text": "It had been the same in another bedroom, too high for pleasure in those days, with its ornate grate and bedside table of shining walnut, on which the loot of his boyhood days looked guiltily out-of-place—lead soldiers, squashed toffees, lengths of string, cheesers, marbles, odd catapult parts, one cowboy “sixgun\".",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Hamilton Crane, Miss Seeton Undercover, page 214",
"text": "There were sniggers from the Plummergen spectators as they saw that the conker dangling from the string in his hand was a cheeser, one of the awkward, wedge-shaped nuts produced when two or more horse chestnuts developed inside the same prickly husk.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, John Sidney Rickerby, The Other Belfast: An Irish Youth, page 95",
"text": "We would all collect the largest and hardest cheesers we could find.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A conker, especially one with a flat side."
],
"links": [
[
"conker",
"conker"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, dialect) A conker, especially one with a flat side."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"dialectal"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1978, Donald Zochert, Murder in the Hellfire Club, page 135",
"text": "\"It's a cheeser!\" Potter gasped loudly, his little fish-eyes bulging. \"God damn! It is a cheeser!",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A particularly strong-smelling fart."
],
"links": [
[
"fart",
"fart"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) A particularly strong-smelling fart."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Textiles"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1920, Pacific Ports - Volume 3, page 64",
"text": "After the twisting is completed the finished yarn is wound on small spools, known as cheesers, to be weighed.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1921, The Wool Year Book - Volume 14, page 275",
"text": "By means of a special automatic cheeser, a sufficient number of balls — say, 64 — are built up to fill a creel, from which they are run into the next machine.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1970, The British Textile Industry, page 7",
"text": "Spinners and winders, coners and cheesers",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A small spool that is used in the finishing stage of yarn-making."
],
"links": [
[
"textiles",
"textiles"
],
[
"spool",
"spool"
],
[
"finish",
"finish"
],
[
"yarn",
"yarn"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(textiles) A small spool that is used in the finishing stage of yarn-making."
],
"topics": [
"business",
"manufacturing",
"textiles"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃizɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃiːzə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-au-cheeser.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ee/En-au-cheeser.ogg/En-au-cheeser.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/En-au-cheeser.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "someone who makes or sells cheese",
"word": "affineur"
},
{
"sense": "someone who makes or sells cheese",
"word": "cheesemaker"
},
{
"sense": "someone who makes or sells cheese",
"word": "cheesemonger"
},
{
"sense": "someone who makes or sells cheese",
"word": "fromager"
},
{
"sense": "broad grin",
"word": "shit-eating grin"
},
{
"word": "smile"
},
{
"sense": "senior, geezer",
"word": "geriatric"
},
{
"word": "oldster"
},
{
"word": "senior citizen"
},
{
"word": "old person"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "smile",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "banan"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "smile",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sonrizón"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "greeting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "saludazo"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "cheeseworker",
"word": "queixeiro"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "cheeseworker",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "quesero"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "old person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "viejujo"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "sandwich",
"word": "(con queso) tapita"
}
],
"word": "cheeser"
}
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