Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Pennsylvania See cottage cheese. See Regional Note at gum band.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as cottage cheese (which see, under cheese).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Local, U. S. Cottage cheese.
Etymologies
- 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). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Coconut and Lime: Rachel chooses one favorite original recipe for each month of the year, including one with the very intriguing name "smearcase".”
“German _wamms_, a doublet, and "smearcase" for cottage cheese, from the”
The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana
“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.”
“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.”
“People rave about the smearcase, which I have yet to try.”
“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.”
“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”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘smearcase’.
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cheese
everything cheese,expressions like
stiff cheddar,turophile's heaven
a work in progresscheddar, cheddared, cheddaring, cheedam, cheese straw, cheesed off, cheesed, cheesie, cheeseparing, cheese tree, cheesewood, cheesier and 352 more...
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Cases of cases
Inspired by the Staircase bookcase.
staircase, bookcase, basket case, lowercase, uppercase, any case, nominative case, subjective case, oblique case, accusative case, dative case, cold case and 65 more...
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See Regional Note at
Being a list of words with definitions imploring us to see the "Regional Note" (usually from the American Heritage Dictionary).
smearcase, charivari, mighty, clever, potato, reel, dove, diplomatic pouch
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