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cheese

1. n. vomit. There’s cheese on the sidewalk. Look out!

2. in. to empty one’s stomach; to vomit. Somebody cheesed on the sidewalk.

3. in. to smile, as for a photographer who asks you to say cheese when a picture is taken. Why are you cheesing? Did something good happen.

4. n. money. (see also cheddar.) I don’t have the cheese to buy a new car.

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I remember a friend of mine, buying a couple of cheeses at Liverpool.

I put the cheeses on the top, and we started off at a shamble that would have done credit to the swiftest steam-roller ever built, and all went merry as a funeral bell, until we turned the corner.

One crusty old gentleman objected, but I got in, notwithstanding; and, putting my cheeses upon the rack, squeezed down with a pleasant smile, and said it was a warm day.

From Euston, I took the cheeses down to my friend's house.

The presence of your husband's cheeses in her house she would, I instinctively feel, regard as a `put upon'; and it shall never be said that I put upon the widow and the orphan.

Very well, then," said my friend's wife, rising, "all I have to say is, that I shall take the children and go to an hotel until those cheeses are eaten.

and who, when taken close to the cheeses and told to sniff hard, said she could detect a faint odour of melons.

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As for Little John and the Tanner, they had by this time eaten every crumb of their bread and cheese.

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Bumble, 'that's the great principle; and that's the reason why, if you look at any cases that get into them owdacious newspapers, you'll always observe that sick families have been relieved with slices of cheese.

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The vegetables in the gardens, the milk and cheese that I saw placed at the windows of some of the cottages, allured my appetite.

The girl met him at the door, helped to relieve him of his burden, and taking some of the fuel into the cottage, placed it on the fire; then she and the youth went apart into a nook of the cottage, and he showed her a large loaf and a piece of cheese.

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At Rustan's and Marketplace, the sales people at the cheese counter are well-informed about the products, says CEO Pierre Olivier Deplanck.

Dried dates stuffed with cheese and nuts

Cheese is a broadly accepted key ingredient in the dietary sector.

Cheese Market- China & India CAGR growth rates noted very high with growing demand for cheese online

Well-established market, increasing demand from fast food industry, and leading cheese producers drive the cheese market in Europe:

Global Cheese Market is Projected to Grow at a CAGR of 4.7% from 2015 to 2020

According to "Category Insight: Cheese," a November 2015 report from global market researcher Mintel, the United States is a "standout growth market in the North American cheese category.