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skunky cheese

skunky cheese

7.7
A cheese with a very strong, unpleasant smell like a skunk
  • noun
  • /ˈskʌŋki tʃiːz/
translation icon : queso maloliente
  • No one wanted to sit near the skunky cheese at the party.

Examples

  • After finding a piece of old skunky cheese in the fridge, she quickly tossed it in the trash.

  • This skunky cheese smells awful!

  • Grandpa loves to eat skunky cheese with crackers and red wine.

  • The fridge needed to be cleaned after we forgot some skunky cheese in the back.

  • I can't believe how skunky cheese can be.

  • The aroma from the skunky cheese made everyone at the picnic step back in disgust.

  • He warned his friends that the skunky cheese on the platter would be an acquired taste.

Synonyms

stank-ass cheese
vsskunky cheese
  • Offensive
9.9

A type of cheese with a very strong bad smell

is the neutral word noting a pungent odor rather than slang

Surface Forms

skunky cheese singular
skunky cheeses plural

Morphology

skunky + cheese

The meaning 'cheese with a strong skunk-like odor' is directly and transparently derived from the adjective 'skunky' (having a skunk-like smell) modifying 'cheese'. This adjective+noun compositional pattern is a standard descriptive construction and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Skunky cheese comes from the simple image of cheese that smells like a skunk's 'spray'. So, skunky cheese means cheese with a very strong, bad 'smell'.