cheddar

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

• cheddaring

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/, [ˈt̪ʃe̞dːɑr]

cheddar

1. cheddar (cheese)

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

• cheddarjuusto

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/ [ˈt͡ʃe.ð̞aɾ]
• 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