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  • When they finally meet the usurper, he comes complete with sidearms, what looks like a cheese-grater over the usual mouth portion of the Bat-mask, and an attitude straight out of 1990s anti-heroism.

    November 2009 2009

  • It's got a wooden handle that feels nice in my hand, and you move the grater instead of the cheese, and I don't know if I will ever be using our old cheese-grater again.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2009

  • Our new cheese-grater is a transcendent experience.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2009

  • He is rumpled and bleary-eyed, with cheese-grater growth and the thousand-yard stare of a campaign aide who has suffered too many box lunches.

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • This whole post is like applying a cheese-grater to the nipple of my ire.

    Breaking the Duck: Coming to Terms with Cycling BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • When they finally meet the usurper, he comes complete with sidearms, what looks like a cheese-grater over the usual mouth portion of the Bat-mask, and an attitude straight out of 1990s anti-heroism.

    Graphic Novel Friday: "Batman: Battle for the Cowl" Omnivoracious 2009

  • When they finally meet the usurper, he comes complete with sidearms, what looks like a cheese-grater over the usual mouth portion of the Bat-mask, and an attitude straight out of 1990s anti-heroism.

    Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009

  • P.S. Having actually studied cartooning for two years with the great Will Eisner as my teacher, slogging through a six-panel “Duh by Duh” is akin to running a fine-gauged cheese-grater over my corneas – repeatedly. josephdietrich Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Back to the Schools 2007

  • Music called "cumbia" continues as day turns into night, around barrio corners, from crowded, colorful buses - sound of drum, recorder and a cheese-grater thingy that sounds like maracas when scraped.

    Lea Lane: Covered in Flour! Just Back from Carnaval in Colombia 2008

  • I think that you should strip the skin from your arms, legs and breasts with a blunt, rusty cheese-grater; you should then go and have a bath in salt making sure to rub it well into your flayed limbs and tits and then, whilst still screaming loudly, you should give yourself three hundred papercuts all over your genitals and then scrub then with wire-wool dipped in lemon juice.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

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