Meaning of cheesehead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person from the state of Wisconsin.
   US, slang
2. A fan of the Green Bay Packers (an American football team of Wisconsin), some of whom wear foam hats shaped like wedges of cheese.
   slang
3. A German, Dutch, or Scandinavian person.
   derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur
4. A blockhead, a stupid person.
   derogatory, slang
5. A white person from the Netherlands or having Dutch heritage.
   slang
6. Someone who eats a lot of cheese.
   slang

Examples

“"Return⟳ to those cheesheads? Sacre/ nom de tonnerre! never!" the Walloon cried energetically.”

“But, alas! fate was against him, he could not gratify his desire for vengeance; but being forced to relieve his feelings in some way, he did so by indignantly shouting after their retreating figures, “ You Dutch cheeseheads, you!””

“In time we were involved in fights with this other school and I remember⟳ that there was always confusion when the cheeseheads were attacked, and at first the opponents forgot that the Regent's son and I didn't belong⟳ to them. Young Soekarno apparently couldn't keep⟳ away from the lovely white Dutch girls.”

“In the eight years of close⟳ and intimate contact⟳ since Geoffrey Frost had taken him off the beach at that pestilential Javanese Port of Batavia, where he had languished after the cheeseheads of the Dutch Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie had stranded him there, Stuan Ferguson had learned to anticipate his captain.”

“Moerkerk de Vries, as a second-generation woman, had greater aspirations than some, but she worked at jobs which were typical for Dutch immigrant women in that region, and she was a "Cheesehead" or one of the "damned foreigners" as far as many were concerned.”

“Having spent several days eating rich cheese dishes while observing that the Swiss are, in general, a slim and fit population — so unlike the cheeseheads I've known at home — I had to ask⟳: "Just how much cheese do you eat⟳?"”

“AMERICA IS TURNING INTO A NATION OF CHEESEHEADS. PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION nearly tripled in the last⟳ 30 years, from 11 pounds to 31 pounds, with roughly 60 percent of that gain⟳ coming through foodservice, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”

“Good News for Cheeseheads! Those of us in Bloomington who are fiends for good cheese have⟳ long faced a choice […]”

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