‖ schmierkäse
(ˈʃmiːrkɛːzə)
Also Schmierkäse.
[G.: see smear-case.]
= smear-case. Also fig.
| 1905 W. Wittigschlager Minna 104 She carried some schmierkase (cream cheese), and butter that smelt so oily..I had to turn my head away. 1931 F. Hurst Back Street i. 13 Sturdy, unstylish women with enormous busts, who ate and drank with relish, but knew, to the penny, for how much less they could spread their groaning home-table with these luxuries of Schmierkäse. 1949 Sat. Even. Post 23 Apr. 80/3, I took large helpings of ham and potatoes, schmierkase, and green salad with tomatoes. 1955 H. Kurnitz Let. Dec. in G. Marx Groucho Lett. (1967) 249, I am..whipping up a schmierkase about light love and dark doings. 1969 R. & D. De Sola Dict. Cooking 202/2 Schmierkäse, (German—soft cheese). To Germans, any soft cheese; to Pennsylvania-Germans, cottage cheese. |