cheesehead
/ˈt͡ʃiːzˌhɛd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.57 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""Return to those cheesheads? Sacre/ nom de tonnerre! never!" the Walloon cried energetically."
- "But, alas! fate was against him, he could not gratify his desire for vengeance; but being forced to relieve his feelings in some way, he did so by indignantly shouting after their retreating figures, “ You Dutch cheeseheads, you!”"
- "In time we were involved in fights with this other school and I remember that there was always confusion when the cheeseheads were attacked, and at first the opponents forgot that the Regent's son and I didn't belong to them. Young Soekarno apparently couldn't keep away from the lovely white Dutch girls."
- "In the eight years of close and intimate contact since Geoffrey Frost had taken him off the beach at that pestilential Javanese Port of Batavia, where he had languished after the cheeseheads of the Dutch Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie had stranded him there, Stuan Ferguson had learned to anticipate his captain."
- "Moerkerk de Vries, as a second-generation woman, had greater aspirations than some, but she worked at jobs which were typical for Dutch immigrant women in that region, and she was a "Cheesehead" or one of the "damned foreigners" as far as many were concerned."
- "Having spent several days eating rich cheese dishes while observing that the Swiss are, in general, a slim and fit population — so unlike the cheeseheads I've known at home — I had to ask: "Just how much cheese do you eat?""
Etymology
Usage
- American usage
- Slang
- Derogatory