cheesehead

cheesehead

1. Someone who is dumb or stupid. Did you hear that guy's ridiculous question? Geez, what a cheesehead.
2. Someone from the state of Wisconsin (which is known for producing a lot of cheese), especially a fan of the Green Bay Packers football team. (Their fans commonly wear novelty headgear shaped like pieces of cheese.) Of course he thinks the Packers are going to win the Super Bowl—he's a total cheesehead. Yep, I'm a cheesehead—I was born in Wisconsin.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cheesehead

1. n. a stupid-acting person. Is this cheesehead bothering you?
2. n. someone from the state of Wisconsin. (Much cheese is made is Wisconsin. Not usually derogatory.) I moved to Wisconsin and became a cheesehead.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • (one) puts (one's) pants on one leg at a time
  • accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey
  • accompany on a journey
  • a stranger to (someone or something)
  • be out of (one's) league
  • be out of somebody's league
  • be in bad with (someone)
  • bargain
  • bargain for (someone or something) with (someone)
  • brief (someone) about (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
Cheesehead Kingdom provides all Wisconsin fans the opportunity to shop "anytime, anywhere and on any device." It's Cheesehead Kingdom's mission to expand the site to allow every fan to find their want, purchase it all at a great price.
The reason behind this fanatic behavior is what I call the "Cheesehead Effect."
As a former resident of Madison, Wisconsin, and a Wisconsin Law School alum and--I don't know if I should admit to this--a sometimes Cheesehead, I have long admired Chief Justice Abrahamson.
Ask most folks to describe Green Bay, Wis., and you might hear things like snow, cold, cheesehead, or "on the Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field." But if you pose the same question to the shooters on the Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) National Trapshoot Circuit, chances are you'll hear things like "beautiful range," "love shooting over the water," "accessibility that's second to none," and "can't wait to go back."
The difference between fanship and fandom revolves around whether the fan defines the self in terms of personal attributes (e.g., I like the Green Bay Packers) or in terms of membership in a social category or group (e.g., I am a Cheesehead).
And if you're serious about your collecting, you'll duplicate the screws you have in the most common form - featuring inverted conical heads that sink flush into wood - with cheesehead screws.
The official birthday party, dubbed 'The Ultimate Cheesehead Challenge,' was conducted in mid-May as part of the community's annual Norwegian Syttende Mai celebration.
You don't have to be a Cheesehead to realize that, thanks to its longstanding reputation as America's Dairyland, Wisconsin enjoys great demand for its agricultural commodities worldwide.
He served a two-year term on the board, was chair of the Broadcast Committee, and was a member of a team that hosted NCEW'S Cheesehead Convention in Madison in 1997.
Associated Press - The Milwaukee company that sells Cheesehead Beer has filed lawsuits against six Wisconsin wholesalers, saying they refused to accept their orders of the beer.
Some people think your hair is a dyed, trimmed cheesehead anyhow.
W-2 is a Cheesehead version of "tough love" championed by Thompson, the son of a grocer who grew up in a rural part of central Wisconsin and who brags that his first job as a boy was shining eggs in his father's store for nickels.
Metea Valley, Neuqua Valley at Kaukauna Cheesehead Invite, 9 a.m.
He took reporters on a half-hour tour of a cheese shop in Kenosha, fielding a generous helping of questions as he insisted his press corps sample the local fare - though he drew the line when offered multiple opportunities to try on a cheesehead hat for the roughly dozen cameras following him.
We stream multiple live webcasts every week, including our flagship show Packer Transplants (or, "Two Guys Who Think They Know Something about Football") on our Cheesehead TV livestream.com enterprise account (livestream .com/cheeseheadtv).