cheese2
Syllabification: (cheese)
Pronunciation: /CHēz/
(in phrase big cheese)
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noun
informalOrigin:
early 19th century (originally in the sense 'the right thing or something excellent'): probably from Urdu, from Persian čīz 'thing'. The current sense dates from the 1920s