farmer's cheese
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4.0
- noun
- /ˈfɑrmərz ˈtʃiz/
- US
- My grandmother used to make pancakes filled with farmer's cheese and topped with fruit preserves.
- a cup of farmer's cheese
Examples
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A cheese course was served next with their homemade farmer's cheese.
Blog text (23) -
On the other side of the cup sat a bowl with a hefty chunk of farmer's cheese half drowned in milk, a spoon already in it.
Fiction book (1996) -
For lunch, I enjoyed a bagel topped with a generous spread of farmer's cheese.
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She served the salad with crumbled farmer's cheese, which added a delicious creaminess.
Synonyms
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1.0
A solid food made from milk that is pressed and often aged
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1.0
A soft white cheese with small lumps made from milk
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7.0
A mild soft white cheese that comes from milk curds, often used as a spread or in cooking
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3.0
A mild white cheese made on small farms from the solid part of sour skim milk
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Morphology
farmer's + cheese
The meaning of 'farmer's cheese' is directly compositional: it denotes cheese made by or associated with a farmer (i.e., a type or origin of cheese). The possessive + noun pattern indicating source or type is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows 'farmer' and 'cheese' can readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Farmer's cheese comes from small cheeses that farmers made at home: the word farmer's shows it came from the farm and cheese was the pressed curds of sour milk. So the name now means 'a mild white cheese made from curds'.