noun General Slang

Cheese and kisses

· noun · cockney-deep

Cockney rhyming slang for the missus (wife).

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Cockney rhyming slang for 'missus', meaning wife or long-term partner. Often shortened to 'cheese'. A staple of old-school East End and pub-talk slang.

“Better get home, the cheese and kisses will be wondering where I am.”
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Cheese and kisses In A Sentence

Better get home, the cheese and kisses will be wondering where I am.

Origin & Usage

19th/20th-century London Cockney rhyming slang. Also picked up enthusiastically in Australian English, where 'cheese' for wife is still heard.

Variants cheese
Tags #cockney#london#rhyming-slang#british#family

People Also Ask

What does 'cheese and kisses' mean?

It's Cockney rhyming slang for 'the missus,' meaning one's wife.

How do you use 'cheese and kisses' in a sentence?

"I'd best get home to the cheese and kisses before she wonders where I am."

Why does 'cheese and kisses' mean wife?

It's Cockney rhyming slang where 'kisses' rhymes with 'missus.'

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