CHEDDAR Definition & Meaning

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cheddar

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noun

Often Cheddar. Also called cheddar cheese. a hard, smooth-textured cheese, made usually from the whole milk of cows and varying in color from white to deep yellow and in flavor from mild to sharp as it ages.
Slang. money:
The monthly grand prize is $200, and the yearly grand prize is $1,000—that's a lot of cheddar.

Cheddar

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noun

sometimes not capital any of several types of smooth hard yellow or whitish cheese
a village in SW England, in N Somerset: situated near Cheddar Gorge , a pass through the Mendip Hills renowned for its stalactitic caverns and rare limestone flora. Pop: 4796 (2001)

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Origin of cheddar¹

First recorded in 1655–65; named after Cheddar, village in Somersetshire, England, where the cheese was first made

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This stops a product from becoming generic and losing its value - like cheddar cheese, which was originally from a specific part of the UK but is now a by-word for a generalised type of cheese.

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Cheese-related crimes are more common than you might think, especially after more than £300,000 worth of cheddar truckles were stolen from a London cheese specialist last year.

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That same marinated feta adds a distinctive, creamy zip when crumbled over a baked potato in place of shredded cheddar.

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A buyer, who claimed to represent a French supermarket chain, wanted to buy 22 tonnes of Hafod, his specialist cheddar.

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More than 22 tonnes of three artisan cheddars - Hafod Welsh, Westcombe, and Pitchfork - which are all award-winning and have a high monetary value, were taken.

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