cheeser
/ˈt͡ʃizɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.21 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who adds cheese to a pizza in an assembly line.
noun
Example Sentences
- "With Swiss farmers, Swiss cheesers, Swiss merchants, the best of grasses and water, and intelligent management, it cannot fail to produce an article which has reduced importation of foreign cheese to a minimum."
- "We took off our long, white cheesers' coats and hung them on the knobs of Edam, which is a Dutch cheese made of cows' milk with about forty per cent fat content and bright red outside."
- "[…] heard the cries of poultry dealers, cheesers, and medicine men."
- "A tractor motor started up; […] the cheeser’s arms carried on grabbing pails of milk and pouring the white flow by the hundredweight into weighing pans and cooling basins […]"
- "But Terry Voice was the best pizza cheeser I've ever seen."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English cheser; equivalent to cheese + -er. The smile is said to resemble the uniform white coloration of cheese, or possibly related to the phrase say cheese.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈt͡ʃizɚ/
- British English: /ˈt͡ʃiːzə/
Usage
- Slang
- Derogatory
- British usage