Contextualizebeta

head cheese

noun

Etymology

Calque of Dutch hoofdkaas.

  1. derived from hoofdkaas

Definitions

  1. A terrine made from the flesh of the head of a pig (such as the face).

  2. Synonym of big cheese.

    • Oh, some of our clients talk big. Spend big. And you get a big rush of power when the head cheeses come in. One time, I got Janet Reno.

  3. Synonym of cock cheese.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for head cheese. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA