What is a cheese lover called? | The Chuckling Cheese Co (2024)

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What are cheese lovers called? ›

Well, if you're a cheese lover, then you probably already know that you're called a turophile (tur-uh-file). The word turophile is a combination of the Greek words tyros, meaning cheese, and philos, meaning "love of". So, in short, a 'turophile” would love our luxury cheese gift hamper!

If so, you just might be a turophile, the ultimate cheese lover. From an irregular formation of the Greek word for cheese, tyros, plus the English -phile, meaning "lover" (itself a descendant of the Greek -philos, meaning "loving"), turophile first named cheese aficionados as early as 1938.

Dream job, anyone? What do you call someone who makes cheese? Simply: a cheesemaker. Or if you're trying to impress someone, you could go with the French word, fromager. What does a cheesemonger do?

Fromager: A cheesemonger or cheese expert. Fromagerie: A storefront devoted to cheese with a specialty in traditional, artisanal cheeses. Fruitière: A small-scale cheese producer or a cheesemaking cooperative that collects milk produced in the Comté and Savoie mountains.

Well, fromage is the French word for cheese! It's related to the word form, from a Latin root. 2. Curds: When making cheese, an essential part of the process is to get the milk to curd.

Cheeze, along with cheese and cheddar, can all be used as slang for money, often associated with hip-hop culture. There's so much slang for the word money.

cheese eater in American English

noun slang. 1. an informer; rat. 2. a person who betrays, denies, or abandons his or her associates, social group, beliefs, etc.

cheesy (adjective as in cheap) Weak matches. inferior poor shabby sleazy trashy worthless.

/ˈtʃiːzi/ /ˈtʃiːzi/ (comparative cheesier, superlative cheesiest) ​(informal) not very good or original, and without style, in a way that is embarrassing but funny.

A good cheese business name should be memorable and evoke a sense of quality and sophistication: The Cheese Emporium. Fromage & Co. The Cheese Cellar.

What are cheese chefs called? ›

Finally there is the cheesemonger or fromager. Sometimes you have someone doing a similar role in restaurants. The cheesemaker and, to some extent, the affneur are more focused on a line of cheeses whereas the fromager is more likely to be a generalist.

Il Casaro, means “The Cheesemaker” and back in Italy it represents artisanal expertise that qualifies professionals that creates traditional dairy products.

An expert cheese seller is called a 'cheesemonger'. An expert in aging cheese(i.e., produced by farms and collected still young) is called a 'affineur'. An expert in making cheese is simply a 'cheesemaker'.

Not only are Packers fans called cheeseheads, but they also wear them on their heads. The term 'cheesehead' comes from Wisconsin's extensive production of cheese.

Unlike the English, the French fromager is used interchangeably for both cheesemonger and cheesemaker.

cheese eater in American English

noun slang. 1. an informer; rat. 2. a person who betrays, denies, or abandons his or her associates, social group, beliefs, etc.

a connoisseur or lover of cheese; a turophile ( def ).

Cheese magic stretches back long before Hildegard and the medieval period. The 2nd-century diviner, Artemidorus, mentions “tyromancy” – cheese divination – as a method of discovering the future in his treatise Oneirocritica.