Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hard green cheese made from skim-milk curd, colored and flavored with sweet clover.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of hard cheese, made in Switzerland, having a greenish color, and flavored with melilot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Alteration of German Schabzieger : schaben, to scrape (from Middle High German, from Old High German skaban) + Zieger, whey, whey cheese (from Middle High German ziger, probably of Celtic origin).]
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Examples
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a great oak-tree, and he lay with his vest open and his hat off, idly sucking the pith from a young sapsago-tree that he had just broken off.
Ting-a-ling Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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