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hard cheese/hard lines Bad luck. [162] [163] hardman or hard man A man who is ruthless and/or violent. [164] [165] helmet The glans of the penis. [166] henry A henry is (or was) an eighth of an ounce (as in Henry the 8th) = in weight to a decimal penny honk Vomit. [167] hook it To run away quickly. [168] hooky or hookey 1.
It normally weighs about 2 kg (approximately 4.5 pounds) and is made from cow's milk. Its name comes from the French word mi-mou (feminine mi-molle), meaning "semi-soft", which refers to the oily texture of this otherwise hard cheese. [4] The bright orange color of the cheese comes from the natural seasoning annatto. [5]
Most of the cheese was then transported from there across the Alps. Customers in northern Italy soon named the cheese "Sbrinz" after this place. The term then also became common in Switzerland. A second explanation is based on the adoption of the Lombard dialect word "sbrinzo", a term for hard cheese. [1]
(slang, derogatory) foolish person, used esp. in northern England but also common elsewhere. Derived from the Northern English term pillicock, a dialect term for penis, although the connection is rarely made in general use. pinch * to steal. pisshead (vulgar) someone who regularly gets heavily drunk (cf. BrE meaning of pissed).
Lincolnshire Poacher cheese – English hard cheese; Little Derby – English cheese; Lymeswold cheese – A soft, blue English cheese that is no longer produced; Marble cheese – Cheese type characterized by streaks of different colors; Merry Wyfe (Bath) Norbury Blue – English blue cheese made on Norbury Park farm; Old Winchester
nou-nou/now now – contrary to the original meaning of the English word "now", it means "in due time", and therefore can mean anything from "in the next five minutes" to "in the next five years". net-nou – lit. "just now." Can refer to an event that happened a while ago, maybe within 12hrs ("I saw him just now").
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This is an uncooked cheese made through pressing. When offered as a farm-produced cheese (known as fromage fermier, fromage de ferme or produit fermier), the AOC regulations stipulate that only raw, unpasteurized milk be used. [6] [7] Historically, production has been: 3,067 tonnes (in 2003) 60 producers (in 2003)