grilled-cheeseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

The syntax around the term's usage supports the idea that it originated as an ellipsis of grilled cheese sandwich.

名詞

grilled cheese (countable and uncountable, plural grilled cheeses)

1. (Canada, US, usually countable) A cheese sandwich typically toasted or fried in butter.

   Hypernym: sandwich

   I'll have a grilled cheese and a bowl of tomato soup, please.

   —Do you like grilled cheese? —I love grilled cheese! Especially with bacon and tomato!

   • 1970, “Time”, in Time Inc., volume 96, numbers 1-9, page 43:

     Third, when you go to lunch today, instead of ordering a steak, ask for a grilled cheese.

   • 1973 September, Anne Crawford and Jack Keever, “John Connally Between the Acts”, in Texas Monthly, ISSN 0148-7736, Volume 1, Issue 8 (September, 1973), page 44:

     A man of impeccable class, he also buys ready-made suits on sale and would as soon have grilled cheese and iced tea as coq au vin.

   • a. 2000, C. Bard Cole, “Young Hemingways”, in Briefly told lives, Macmillan, published 2000, →ISBN, page 120:

     We sat out among the sidewalk tables, and I had a grilled cheese with bacon.

   • 2001, Terry Bisson, The Pickup Artist, Macmillan, published 2002, →ISBN, page 23:

     I passed on the healthy stuff and had a grilled cheese.

   • 2008 March 2, Danny Smith, “Play It Again”, in Family Guy, season 6 episode 10, 14:44-14:50:

     Stewie: Does anybody wanna buy my shirt? [pause] I'll trade you my shirt for a grilled cheese!

   • 2009 December, in Dwell, ISSN 1530-5309, Volume 10, Number 2 (December 2009/January 2010), page 28:

     He lunched on grilled cheese in Toronto and sashimi in Tokyo and had the chance to stick his finger in a true-to-life Dutch dike in Almere, Holland.

同意語

• (grilled cheese sandwich): cheese toastie, snackwich, grilled cheese sandwich, toasted cheese

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