Sub-cheese

Alternative forms

Origin

+ , respelled in a folk-etymological identification with .

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Full definition of sub-cheese

Pronoun

1. (originally Anglo-Indian, military slang, archaic) Everything; all there is.
• 1859, P. & O., Always Ready, or, Every One His Pride, Another inch further over would have precipitated the whole sub cheeze, down the incline.
• 1898, w:Rudyard Kipling, w:The Day's Work Chapter William the Conqueror: Part I, 'She's as clever as a man, confound her,' Martyn went on. 'She broke up the bungalow over my head while I was talking at her. Settled the whole subchiz outfit in three hours—servants, horses, and all. I didn't get my orders till nine.'
• 1993, w:George MacDonald Fraser, w, "The whole bloody sub-cheese, the lot!"
• 2018, w:Ben Schott, w:Jeeves and the King of Clubs, 'If you'd threatened that earlier, Monty, I'd have ponied up the whole sub-cheese to avoid it.'

Usage notes

Chiefly used in the phrase "the whole sub-cheese".

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