Meaning

2 senses
  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)The blue tit.

  2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete)The fruit of the mallow.

Origin

From pick + cheese. The bird is so called because it would steal from dairies.

From pick + cheese. The bird is so called because it would steal from dairies.

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Forms

plural: pickcheeses
Singularpickcheese
Pluralpickcheeses

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedcheeseweed

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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