Meaning

6 senses

  1. (US, slang)A person from the state of Wisconsin.

  2. (slang)A fan of the Green Bay Packers (an American football team of Wisconsin), some of whom wear foam hats shaped like wedges of cheese.

  3. (derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur)A German, Dutch, or Scandinavian person.

  4. (derogatory, slang)A blockhead, a stupid person.

  5. (slang)A white person from the Netherlands or having Dutch heritage.

  6. (slang)Someone who eats a lot of cheese.

Origin

From cheese + head, in reference to the cheese production of these regions.

From cheese + head, in reference to the cheese production of these regions.

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Forms

plural: cheeseheads

Word family

1 related words
Relatedcheese eater

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cheeseA1cheeseburgercheesecakecheesycheetahchefA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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