Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as cottage cheese (which see, under cheese).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Local, U. S. Cottage cheese.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Pennsylvania Dutch Schmierkees, from German Schmierkäse, a kind of spreadable cheese : schmieren, to smear (from Middle High German smirwen, from Old High German) + Käse, cheese (from Middle High German kaese, from Old High German kāsi, from Latin cāseus).]

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Examples

  • Coconut and Lime: Rachel chooses one favorite original recipe for each month of the year, including one with the very intriguing name "smearcase".

    Archive 2007-12-01 Nupur 2007

  • German _wamms_, a doublet, and "smearcase" for cottage cheese, from the

    The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana Edward Eggleston 1869

  • Then when mother had put a nice clean valance, freshly starched and ruffled, around the big four-poster bed in the sitting-room, Will would daub it up with smearcase, and just before the preachers arrived, sneak in under it, and wait for prayers.

    Last of the great scouts; the life story of Col. William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") as told by his sister, Helen Cody Wetmore 1899

  • Then when mother had put a nice clean valance, freshly starched and ruffled, around the big four-poster bed in the sitting-room, Will would daub it up with smearcase, and just before the preachers arrived, sneak in under it, and wait for prayers.

    Last of the Great Scouts The Life Story of William F Cody Wetmore, Helen C 1899

  • One finds also here and there a word from the “Pennsylvania Dutch,” such as “waumus” for a loose jacket, from the German wamms, a doublet, and “smearcase” for cottage cheese, from the German schmierkaese.

    The Hoosier Schoolmaster Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 1871

  • People rave about the smearcase, which I have yet to try.

    Blogtimore, Hon 2009

  • People rave about the smearcase, which I have yet to try.

    Baltiblogs 2009

  • The P's take us from pandowdy to pompey to pudjicky; the Q's offer qualmish, quick start, and quiddle; in R we find ramstugious, redd up, robin snow, and rumpelkammer; and S yields saluggi, say-so, and smearcase.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4 1998

  • "game" intended to torment its victim say-so an ice-cream cone smearcase cottage cheese pollynose a maple seed that one splits apart and sticks to the bridge of the nose prickly pig a porcupine puppy toes a plant of the genus Euonymous, also called "cat's paw" and "burning bush"

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4 1998

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  • Deplore any foods that displease,
    Defame with inconsequent ease,
    But spread no disgrace
    To humble smearcase:
    Only bullies will smear a soft cheese.

    August 15, 2014