cheeseball
noun, adjective
cheeseball is a noun meaning “A spherical mass of cheese or cream cheese, often including nuts or other additions and served as an hors d'oeuvre or finger food, usually with bread…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-E-E-S-E-B-A-L-L, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cheeseball is cheeseballs.
What does cheeseball mean?
noun
- 1
A spherical mass of cheese or cream cheese, often including nuts or other additions and served as an hors d'oeuvre or finger food, usually with bread or crackers.
- 2
The tree Glochidion ferdinandi.
- 3
derogatoryslangSomeone cheesy, lacking taste or style.
adjective
- 1
derogatoryslangCheesy, lacking taste or style.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cheeseball?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-cheeseball.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cheeseball
- cheeseballs plural
- more cheeseball comparative
- most cheeseball superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cheeseball?
Cheeseball appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does cheeseball come from?
From cheese + ball.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).