Definitions

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  • adjective Having a taste like that of cheddar cheese.

Etymologies

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cheddar +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Nigel, meanwhile, mixes his cheese with solid butter, which gives a denser, more intensely cheddary topping which I'd hesitate to describe as anything grander than a simple cheese on toast.

    How to cook perfect welsh rarebit 2011

  • The interior is golden, with an assertive, almost cheddary flavor and a slightly bitter finish.

    Say Cheese: The Keswick manner 2010

  • Generally, it is deep dish, with a crispy top layer, and gooey warm and cheddary, doled out in big soft spoonfuls, comfort food of high magnitude.

    Baked Pasta/Macaroni and Cheese Lindy 2006

  • Generally, it is deep dish, with a crispy top layer, and gooey warm and cheddary, doled out in big soft spoonfuls, comfort food of high magnitude.

    Toast: Lindy 2006

  • Generally, it is deep dish, with a crispy top layer, and gooey warm and cheddary, doled out in big soft spoonfuls, comfort food of high magnitude.

    Americana Lindy 2008

  • My dad's secret for extra cheddary oomph he is the mac and cheese maker, though my mother cooks everything else is a small spoonful of Keen's dry hot mustard powder in the sauce.

    Mac & Cheese 2007

  • The jays were going cuckoo over the Cheezie Nuggies, most definitely savoring the zesty cheddary richness, scurrying back to their nests to regurgitate from their crops their loads of dull little seeds and romping expectantly back to my windowsill for a fresh new load of Nug-gies.

    Shampoo Planet Coupland, Douglas 1992

  • At Colombia's big outdoor soundsystem parties such as Skorpion Disco Show, which echo the bass culture of Jamaica, DJs including Los Reyes Del Perreo bosh out rampant, high-powered, champeta fusions featuring ultra cheddary trance riffs, cheap drum machines and bargain-bin

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • She had the somewhat culturally confusing hara kebab (£6), which was spinach burgers, with an apparently cheddary filling

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • She had the somewhat culturally confusing hara kebab (£6), which was spinach burgers, with an apparently cheddary filling

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

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