Cheddar
//ˈt͡ʃɛdɚ// name, noun, verb, slang
name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Cheddar cheese. countable, uncountable
- 2 A cheese styled after the Cheddar cheese made in Cheddar. countable, uncountable
- 3 hard smooth-textured cheese; originally made in Cheddar in southwestern England wordnet
- 4 Money, cash, currency. countable, slang, uncountable
"Touch my cheddar, feel my Beretta."
Verb
- 1 To cut and press cheese so as to remove the whey and leave drier curds. transitive
Proper Noun
- 1 A large village and civil parish, previously in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England, famous for its cheese, and also for its gorge, caves and remains of early man found in them (OS grid ref ST4553).
- 2 A ghost town in Highlands East municipality, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
Example
More examples"I broke a small piece of cheddar cheese and dipped it in sour cream."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English [Term?], from Old English Ceodre, likely from the word ceodor (“cavity, pouch; ravine”), as there is a gorge near the town.
Etymology 2
From Cheddar cheese. The slang use meaning "money, currency" may be derived from association with cheese (“wealth”), probably from Persian چیز (čiz, “thing”).
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.