chee-e-ese

Updated: May 10, 2025

When he disapproves of another young gentleman, this is how "he puts him next" to the fact, as he himself would say "You're nothin' but a two-spot. You're the smallest thing in the deck.... Chee-e-ese it! You can't do nothin' like that to me and then come around afterwards and jolly me. Not in a million!

William Archer - America To-day, Observations and Reflections

What but these same beggarly croakers, that be only fit to be turned into yellow-hammers up to Dartymoor, and sit on a tor all day, and cry 'Very little bit of bread, and no chee-e-ese! Marry, sneak-up! say I again." "And what," said Drake, "would have kept me, if I'd let 'em, from ever sailing round the world, but these same croakers?

Charles Kingsley - Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth