Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A lover of cheese.
Wiktionary
- n. a gourmet/connoisseur of cheese
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek τυρός (turos, "cheese") + -phile. (Wiktionary)
- Greek tūros, cheese; + -phile. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘turophile’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tyromancy, tyroma, tyroid, tyriasis, tyrannicide, typtology, typothetae, typomania, typography, typographia, typhonic, typhomania and 930 more...
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250 Spelling Words
A selected sampling of words for intermediate and advanced spellers.
orecchiette, rhabdomancy, guayabera, orthoepy, opisthenar, maguey, proem, ciabatta, cioppino, banns, concinnity, asthenia and 237 more...
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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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word list
abligurition, humectant, absterge, dactylonomy, agamous, olecranon, geosmin, sphallolalia, aquiline, obloquy, quiescent, fother and 17 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Words to Use
habitué, hackney, harpy, harridan, hedonism, hootenanny, callipygous, lucubrate, pococurante, querulous, recondite, susurrus and 110 more...
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June 2011
revivify, assimilability, trichotillomania, thalassocracy, prodrome, watteau, keelhaul, maelstrom, glossolalia, ethereal, turophile, piccalilli and 44 more...
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Goodies from Phrontistery.info
One of my favourite word-related sites is the Phrontistery, and occasionally I poke around that site to find interesting words I've never heard of before. This list includes my favourite words from...
ascoliasm, nebulaphobia, gynotikolobomasso..., poetomachia, turophile, growlery, mumpsimus, peccavi, obrumpent, nubivagant, orgiophant, scaevity and 2 more...
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Self-Descriptors
poliotic, psilanthropic, philocalist, maenad, matutolagnia, misocapnist, musaceous, omphalopsychite, opsimathy, abecedarian, acapnotic, addlepate and 14 more...
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Comestibles and Libations
Food and drink words
rumfustian, grout-ale, weizenbock, zymurgy, wort, multum, coq au vin, mead, schooner, lager, malt liquor, bock beer and 47 more...
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Gallimaufry
...words to be reassigned as time allows.
vade, viduity, surd, thropple, horary, sorites, ancile, roscid, spraints, birl, marmite, voxel and 68 more...
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Gastronomy
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Words with Interesting Meaning
skoal, saudade, uxorious, turophile, eleemosynary, plumeria, ennead, twip, vainglorious
Tweets
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madmouth I thought it may have an etymological link to tiramisu, but not so Aug 8, 2010