swiss cheese
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
By extension, any cheese which resembles Emmentaler, especially ones with holes.
Colloquial; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- ""If people really knew the extent to which the Internet is Swiss cheese, they would freak out," Fancher says. As with employee crime, the best protections against attacks by outsiders are matters of common sense, say security experts."
- "[…] surprise and frustration when systems ultimately decay into a block of security Swiss cheese."
- "He will get Swiss cheesed."
Usage
Inflected Forms
Swiss cheeses (present, singular)
Swiss cheesing (participle, present)
Swiss cheesed (participle, past)
Swiss cheesed (past)