cheddar

From Cheddar cheese. The slang use meaning "money, currency" may be derived from association with cheese (“wealth”), probably from Persian چیز (čiz, “thing”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛdə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɛdə(ɹ)

cheddar (countable and uncountable, plural cheddars)

1. A cheese styled after the Cheddar cheese made in Cheddar.
2. (slang) Money, cash, currency.
   • 1996, Junior M.A.F.I.A., Get Money:

     Touch my cheddar, feel my Beretta.

cheddar (third-person singular simple present cheddars, present participle cheddaring, simple past and past participle cheddared)

1. (cheese making) To cut and press cheese so as to remove the whey and leave drier curds.

Borrowed from English cheddar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃedːɑr/,
• Rhymes: -edːɑr

cheddar

1. cheddar (cheese)

Although used to refer to Cheddar cheese, the term in Finland is sometimes also used to refer to processed cheese (sulatejuusto), although having nothing to do with Cheddar cheese.

• cheddarjuusto

• “cheddar”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Borrowed from English cheddar.

• IPA^(key): /tʃɛ.daʁ/ ~ /tʃe.daʁ/

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cheddar m (plural cheddars)

1. Cheddar cheese

Unadapted borrowing from English cheddar.

cheddar m (plural cheddars)

1. Cheddar cheese (type of cheese)

Unadapted borrowing from English cheddar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃedaɾ/
• Rhymes: -edaɾ

cheddar m (plural cheddars)

1. Cheddar cheese

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Borrowed from English cheddar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕɛdːar/

cheddar c

1. cheddar