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Let's see... cheesehead? Cheese-o-phile? Just slap on a -phile suffix and everyone knows what you mean, right? Seriously, though, we're at your service... Our first stop was Yahoo!'s Cheese category. We thought the answer would be easy to find. At CheeseNet we learned a thing or two about stinky cheeses and washed rinds, but still no curds and whey. The lack of results drove us to a Google search on the phrase "lover of cheese." This led us to the Cheese Lover's Guide from Epicurious, which
tipped us off with a telling clue in this sentence: "...dedicated turophiles serve cheese frequently at home..." Turophiles. Fancy that! It had the -phile we'd been searching for, and, judging from the context, it seemed like a winner. To validate our hunch, we went to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and typed in "turophile." Suspicions confirmed. A person who fancies cheese -- creamy camembert or Kraft Philly -- is indeed a turophile. Turo is derived from tyro, that's Greek for cheese, and -phile means "lover of."
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