Is there some hidden meaning to "Cheese"?

Question

I see people using "Cheese" in their internet handles, mention it in their posts, etc. They use it as if there's some meaning only known to "insiders". Anything to this?

Answer 1

I don't know.

Answer 2

In modern English slang, something "cheesy" is kitsch, cheap, inauthentic, or of poor quality. One can also be "cheesed off"— unhappy or annoyed. Such negative connotations might derive from a ripe cheese's sometimes-unpleasant odor. Almost certainly the odor explains the use of "cutting the cheese" as a euphemism for flatulence, and the term "cheesy feet" to mean feet which smell. A more upbeat slang use is seen in "the big cheese", an expression referring to the most important person in a group, the "big shot" or "head honcho". This use of the word probably derived not from the word cheese, but from the Persian or Hindi word chiz, meaning a thing.

A more whimsical bit of American and Canadian slang refers to school buses as "cheese wagons", a reference to school bus yellow. People getting their photo taken are often encouraged to "say cheese!", as the word "cheese" contains the phoneme /i/, a long vowel which requires the lips to be stretched in the appearance of a smile. People from Wisconsin and the Netherlands, both centers of cheese production, have been called cheeseheads. This nickname has been embraced by Wisconsin sports fans — especially fans of the Green Bay Packers or Wisconsin Badgers — who are now seen in the stands sporting plastic or foam hats in the shape of giant cheese wedges.

Answer 3

I didn't hear it was about that but supposedly it is a mockery of Queen Victoria and her court In Alice's treatment of the little drink, we are reminded of the specific perils that face children. Carroll writes: ". . . [F]or she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up be wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them" (17-8). The challenge of mastering the "simple rules" is going to be Alice's main struggle in Wonderland, and this passage hints at some of worst consequences of not knowing the rules. Innocence is closely connected to ignorance: in this book, it is not an idealized or safe state. While we are charmed by Alice's blunders and know that she will make it home in the end, Carroll is constantly reminding us of the consequences of not knowing the rules. Childhood is partially a state of peril, and Carroll names a few of those perils directly: poison bottles that the child cannot read, falls, burns, wounds from blades that the child is too young to handle (18). Not least of these dangers is an adult world that baffles and confuses. Alice is trained enough to read the bottle before she drinks it. She knows the simple rule in this case, and knows well enough to avoid the label "poison." Her challenge will be to learn more complex rules, reading not only labels but also situations and people as she makes her way through Wonderland.

Answer 4

Cheese is like the word Corny. it is used to explain some time lame and boring
Cheesy = stinky

Answer 5

it is a secret code known only to cheese heads

Answer 6

Cheese is also street slang for Hash

Answer 7

I've heard rappers say cheese to mean cash.

Answer 8

Cheesy=corny
Cheese=smile/the dairy product

Answer 9

obey the cheese.
open your heart to cheese. cheese is your way to true enlightenment

Answer 10

depends on the context. There's another meaning other than food

Answer 11

cheese us? I mean, we're starving here, cheese us christ!