grilled cheese

== English == === Etymology === The syntax around the term's usage supports the idea that it originated as an ellipsis of grilled cheese sandwich. === Noun === grilled cheese (usually countable, plural grilled cheeses) (Canada, US) A cheese sandwich typically toasted or fried in butter. Hypernym: sandwich 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. 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. ==== Synonyms ==== (grilled cheese sandwich): cheese toastie, snackwich, grilled cheese sandwich, toasted cheese ==== Translations ====