- cheddar (n.)[cheddar 词源字典]
- 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 gorge nearby).[cheddar etymology, cheddar origin, 英语词源]