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cheese eating en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of cheese-eating.
    • Wiggins had a cheese eating grin on his face. 2014, William T. Stewart, Dark South: And Other Strange Tales, page 375:

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cheese eating en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (attributive, often, uncountable) The act of ratting on or informing.
    • This officer's cheese eating had gone as far as to earn him a position on the "Wall of Cheese" that a widely-respected veteran police officer created and maintained in his office some time before our study. 2007, Carl B. Klockars, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, M.R. Haberfeld, Enhancing Police Integrity, page 71:
    • She wondered how much he knew about what she was doing because there was not telling what his cheese eating cousin Bo told him. 2014, No More Games:
    • He would be killed on sight like the cheese eating rat he was. 2010, Daniell Harshaw, Bulletproof Love, page 184:
  2. (uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cheese, eating.
    • To do this, we need information about you and your cheese eating habits. 1992, Anna Marie Roberts, Sensory Attributes and Preferences for Cheddar Cheese, page 124: