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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A hard green cheese made from skim-milk curd, colored and flavored with sweet clover.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A kind of hard cheese, made in Switzerland, having a greenish color, and flavored with melilot.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A kind of Swiss cheese, of a greenish color, flavored with melilot.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a hard green Swiss cheese made with skim-milk curd and flavored with clover

Etymologies

  1. 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). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “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

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  1. Swiss cheese

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  1. schabzieger
  1. basswood cheese
  1. melilot

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