cottage cheese
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- noun
- /ˈkɒtɪdʒ tʃiːz/
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requesón
- I love adding fresh fruit to my cottage cheese for breakfast.
- low-fat cottage cheese
- cottage cheese and fruit
- cottage cheese with pineapple
I, I eat a lot of, OK, this is weird, but I eat a lot of blended cottage cheese.
- I, I eat a lot of, OK, this is weird, but I eat a lot of blended cottage cheese.
Examples
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When he was not there, she dined on cottage cheese and a cracker.
Fiction book (1993) -
My dad, as much as he loved dairy foods, would not eat cheese, other than cottage cheese.
Blog text (8) -
Tell my wife I forgot to pick up the cottage cheese!
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Did you finish my cottage cheese?
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Can I have a little more cottage cheese?
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Whose cottage cheese is this?
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We had everything in the house to make them except the cottage cheese.
Blog text (16) -
I'll go get some more cottage cheese.
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I'll buy you some more cottage cheese.
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Lots of times, I just have cottage cheese and fruit in the kitchen.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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A solid food made from milk that is pressed and often aged
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A mild white cheese made from the curds of soured milk
A mild soft white cheese that comes from milk curds, often used as a spread or in cooking
A mild white cheese made on small farms from the solid part of sour skim milk
How Soft
Surface Forms
Morphology
cottage + cheese
The compound names a particular kind of cheese and its meaning can be directly inferred from 'cottage' (small house) + 'cheese' — i.e., a cheese associated with or originating from cottages, so a learner will understand it denotes a type of cheese. This noun-compound pattern (modifier + kind) is cross-linguistically common, making the expression immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The name cottage cheese comes from small country cottages where people made fresh cheese at home from leftover milk. The cheese was soft with small curds or lumps, so the name now means 'soft, lumpy white cheese'.