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cheeselep

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From Middle English cheslip (“rennet”), from Old English cȳslybb, cīeslybb (“rennet”), from Proto-West Germanic *kāsijalubi (literally “cheese medicine, cheese potion”). Equivalent to cheese + lib.

noun cheeseleps · cheeselip · cheeselop · cheeslib · chislock · choslip

  1. The dried stomach of a calf, used for curdling milk for cheese.
  2. Rennet.
  3. A bag in which rennet is kept.

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@misc{cheeselep_2026,
  title = {cheeselep},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cheeselep},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}