Cheddar

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From Cheddar cheese. The slang use meaning "money, currency" may be derived from association with cheese(“wealth”), probably from Persian چیز‎ (čīz, “thing”).


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cheddar (n.)

type of cheese, 1660s (but the cheese presumably was made long before that), from Cheddar, village in Somerset, England, where it originally was made, from Old English Ceodre (c.880), probably from ceodor "ravine" (there is a striking gorge nearby).