Cheese vs. Cheesy — What's the Difference?

Cheese is a dairy product, derived from milk and produced in wide ranges of flavors, textures and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep.

Like cheese in taste, smell, or consistency

A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk, often seasoned and aged.

Cheap and of low quality

A molded mass of this substance.

Containing or resembling cheese.

Something resembling this substance in shape or consistency.

Of poor quality; shoddy

An important person.

Vulgarly pretentious or sentimental

To stop.

Of or relating to cheese.

(uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

Resembling or containing cheese.

(countable) Any particular variety of cheese.

(informal) Overdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd, trite, contrived.

(countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.

(informal) Cheap, of poor quality.

A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)

Exaggerated and likely to be forced or insincere.

A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese

Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.

That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.

Of very poor quality

Money.

In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.

A fastball.

A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.

Smegma.

(technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.

The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).

A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

(slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.

The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.

To prepare curds for making cheese.

(technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

(slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.

(slang) To stop; to refrain from.

(slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".

To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)

To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).

(photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.

The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.

The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia).

A low courtesy; - so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk

Erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States

Used in the imperative (get away, or stop it);

Wind onto a cheese;