Cheshire
Northwest England region
Cheshire is a county in northwestern England, known historically for dairy farming and cheesemaking.
The term appears most often in Cheshire cat, the grinning feline from *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*, giving rise to phrases like grinning like a Cheshire cat—smiling broadly and mysteriously.
Cheshire cheese is a crumbly, mild English cheese.
Broad, toothy smile
- smilePleased facial expression
- vanishingCeasing to be visible
- mischievousPlayfully causing trouble
- mysteriousBeyond easy comprehension
Alice · Lewis Carroll · floating · disappearing · teeth · tree · enigmatic · impish
grin
Broad, toothy smile
- smilePleased facial expression
- vanishingCeasing to be visible
- mischievousPlayfully causing trouble
mysterious · Alice · Lewis Carroll · floating · disappearing · teeth · tree · enigmatic · impish · phantasmal
crumbly
Prone to fragmenting
creamery · farmhouse · aged · mild · traditional · wedge · rind · dairy · territorial · cellar
Stockport
Town in northwest England
- salt miningExtracting sodium chloride deposits
- CountiesCork, Dublin, Kerry, Galway, Mayo
- Lewis CarrollJabberwocky, Alice in Wonderland, Queen of Hearts, Humpty Dumpty, White Queen
- British PlacesBuckingham Palace, England, Tower of London, London, Big Ben
- British dairyStilton, cheddar, Wensleydale, Lancashire, clotted cream
- ConnecticutHartford, New Haven, Stamford, Bridgeport, Norwalk
- English ShiresBedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire
Cheshirecity
Large populated area
Manchester · Liverpool · Chester · London · Birmingham
Cheshireinner-city
Central part of metropolis
Blackpool · Middlesbrough · Burnley · Tower Hamlets · council estate
- Cheshire CatFading striped feline
- grin like a Cheshire catSmile mysteriously and persistently
shire, Manchester, Lancaster, Worcester, Chester, Winchester, Leicester, Gloucester