Cheese-it Definition

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(idiomatic, slang) An imperative used as a warning to stop, hide, or flee.
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Origin of Cheese-it

  • In his Vocabulary of the Flash Language, author and former convict James Hardy Vaux (1782-?) defined cheese it as synonymous with stash it and stow it, all meaning to desist or leave off.

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  • Unknown, but lexicographer Eric Partridge (1894-1976) speculated that it may be a corruption of cease.

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Words Starting With

CCHCHE

Words Ending With

TIT

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cheese-it

Words Starting With C and Ending With T

Starts With C & Ends With TStarts With CH & Ends With TStarts With C & Ends With IT

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With C9 Letter Words Ending With T